Marriage, separation, and divorce in England, 1500-1700 / K.J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton.
Why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation? Kesselring and Stretton argue that the answer lies in a distinctive aspect of English law - its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal...
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