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Father Knows Worst
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A HOUSE IN GROSS DISORDER
Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
By Cynthia B. Herrup
Oxford. 216 pp. $25
The story that Cynthia Herrup tells in this thoughtful,
scrupulously researched book takes place in Tudor and Stuart England
in the years 1630 and 1631. Charles I, "the most conventionally
familial of monarchs, publicly devoted to his wife and children," was
on the throne; the son of the brilliant but "unkempt" James I, he was
"determined that his court would be as ceremonious and upright as his
father's had been raucous and incorrigible." He ruled "a
civilization rife with anxieties," ...
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