By: Diana O'Hara

This monograph is based on Diana O'Hara's Doctorial thesis at the University of Kent. It was first published in 2000 as a hardback and it was published as a paperback in 2002. She has also published articles in "Continuity and Change" and "Rural History." The research for this investigation into courtship rituals took place by way of a scholarship in 1994 to go overseas. O'Hara's research comes directly from church documents including wills and court cases, in areas such as Canterbury, Maidstone and Kent. Courtship and Constraint was written with the purpose of exploring the value of courtship rituals and how they affected marriage in the time of the Tudors. O'Hara feels marriage construction, during the Tudor time period, and its importance to the community, family, and the marriage itself is often overlooked and/or devalued.

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