From Fornicators to Family, 1600–2010
by
Rebecca Probert
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has changed over the past four centuries, from punishment as fornicators in the seventeenth century to eventual acceptance as family in the late twentieth; second, to chart how the language used to refer to...