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A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
by Cynthia B. Herrup
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A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the In A House in Gross Disorder Cynthia Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation of the case of the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and of the sexual and social anxieties it cast into such bold relief Castlehaven was convicted of assisting in the rape of his own wife and of committing sodomy with his servants A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven Sex privilege corruption and revengethese are elements that we expect to find splashed across todays tabloid headlines But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of an earl House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of Sex privilege corruption and revenge—these are elements that we expect to find splashed across todays tabloid headlines But in 17thcentury England a sex scandal in which the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for crimes so horrible that “a Christian man ought scarce to name them” threatened the very foundations of aristocratic hierarchy A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the In A House in Gross Disorder Cynthia Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation of the case of the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and of the sexual and social anxieties it cast into such bold relief Castlehaven was convicted of assisting in the rape of his own wife and of committing sodomy with his servants A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven Sex privilege corruption and revengethese are elements that we expect to find splashed across todays tabloid headlines But in 17th century England a sex scandal in which the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for crimes so horrible that a Christian man ought A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of In A House in Gross Disorder Cynthia Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation both of the case itself and of the sexual and social anxieties it cast into such bold relief Castlehaven was convicted of abetting the rape of his wife and of committing sodomy with his servants A house in gross disorder sex law and the 2nd Earl of In A House in Gross Disorder Cynthia B Herrup presents a new interpretation both of the case itself and of the sexual and social anxieties it cast into such bold relief Castlehaven was convicted of abetting the rape of his wife and of committing sodomy with his servants Project MUSE A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and In A House in Gross Disorder Cynthia Herrup reconstructs in meticulous detail the dramatic case of Mervin Touchet the second earl of Castlehaven who was executed in 1631 for abetting in the rape of his End Page 681 wife and committing sodomy with his male servants Such actions would seem to speak primarily to the A House in Gross Disorder Sex Law and the 2nd Earl of Notwithstanding its authors declination of the question of whether justice had been served by the earls conviction a matter to which I will return A House in Gross Disorder is an important and finely textured work of early modern cultural studies one that surely will long hold its place as our central historical account of the Castlehaven scandal Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl of Castlehaven Wikipedia Mervyn Tuchet sometimes Mervin Touchet 2nd Earl of Castlehaven 1593 – 14 May 1631 was an English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently executed A son of George Tuchet 1st Earl of Castlehaven and 11th Baron Audley by his wife Lucy Mervyn he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Audley during his fathers lifetime so is sometimes referred to as Mervyn Audley
