Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-449) and index.
Contents:
Prologue -- Contexts and perspectives -- Marriage, fame and shame -- 'Bawdy courts' in rural society before 1530 -- Urban aspirations : pre-reformation provincial towns -- Stews-side? Westminster, Southwark and the London suburbs -- London Church courts before the Reformation -- Civic moralism in Yorkist and early Tudor London -- Sex and the celibate clergy -- Reform and Reformation, 1530-58 -- Towards the New Jerusalem? Reformation of sexual manners in provincial society, 1558-80 -- Brought into Bridewell : sex police in early Elizabethan London -- Regulating sex in late Elizabethan times : retrospect and prospect.
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