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This article argues that people defined as cruel a wide variety of husbands' acts against their wives from the early modern period onwards.

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The article challenges claims that the further back we go in history, the more husbands' violence against their wives was tolerated.

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This page is a summary of: Marital cruelty: reconsidering lay attitudes in England,c. 1580 to 1850, The History of the Family, August 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1081602x.2013.779292.
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