WITH A FORTUNE AT STAKE - WHO CAN YOU TRUST?When Geir Lamarck is asked to track down a missing heiress, it's not just another case. Because the heiress is Taslana Zael and she stands to inherit twenty billion marks. When Laura Glyde tells Lamarck she really is Taslana Zael, he knows she's lying - but can he prove it? Finding the answers takes him back into a past he thought he'd left behind. Soon he realises things are not as straightforward as they appear. To learn the truth, will...

England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce Act and its creation of judicial divorces extend the possibility more broadly. Aspects of the history of divorce are well known from studies which typically privilege the records of the church courts that claimed a monopoly o...

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural diversification, the ...