The original bundlers: Boaz and Ruth, and seventeenth-century English courtship practices.(Critical Essay)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Fischer-Yinon, Yochi | Copyright information

The courtship habits of Early Modem England included a wide spectrum of sexual togetherness. Between penetrative sex, which could end in premarital pregnancy, and no physical contact at all, there was a wide spectrum to maneuver.

The paper offers a new tentative research orientation attempting to interpret the social place and meaning of one custom of premarital sexual togetherness--namely: Bundling, in late sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Rather then relating the questi...

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