Seduction by Promise of Marriage: Law, Sex, and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Historians agree that early modern Spaniards' sexual behavior deviated significantly from norms set forth in royal and canon law. The question of how Spaniards resolved the tensions between their sexual norms as encoded in law and their nonnormative sexual behaviors has yet to be addressed. Thi...

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Main Author: Dyer, Abigail (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2003
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2003, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 439-455
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