The Voices of Nîmes Women Sex and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc 1st edition by Suzannah Lipscomb 019251833X 9780192518330

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ISBN-10 :  019251833X 

ISBN-13 :  9780192518330

Author :  Suzannah Lipscomb 

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought. Criminal courts and magistrates kept few records of their testimonies, and no ecclesiastical court records are known to survive for the French Roman Catholic Church between 1540 and 1667. For the most part, we cannot hear the voices of ordinary French women – but this study allows us to do so. Based on the evidence of 1,200 cases brought before the consistories – or moral courts – of the Huguenot church of Languedoc between 1561 and 1615, The Voices of Nîmes allows us to access ordinary women’s everyday lives: their speech, behaviour, and attitudes relating to love, faith, and marriage, as well as friendship and sex. Women appeared frequently before the consistory because one of the chief functions of moral discipline was the regulation of sexuality, and women were thought to be primarily responsible for sexual sin. 

The Voices of Nîmes : Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc 1st Table of contents:

1. Landscape
Languedoc and The Wars of Religion
Women’s Lives
2. The Pursuit of Morality
The purpose of Moral Discipline
Disciplinary Priorities
The Membership of the Consistory
Sacred and Secular Governance
The Operation of the Consistory
The Consistory, Patriarchy, and Women
3. Belief
Faith
Magic
4. Social Relations
Gossip
Insults
Disputes
5. Love and Marriage
Courtship
Broken Promises
6. Sex
Paillardise
Prey
7. The Trials of Marriage
Disharmony and Violence
Adultery

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