Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts

Name: Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts
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ISBN: 9780521877282

ISBN-10: 0521877288

ISBN-13: 9780521877282

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles Donahue

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Donohue provides a study of marriage litigation (with some reference to sexual offences) in the archiepiscopal court of York, and the episcopal courts of Ely, Cambrai and Brussels.

Book details

List price: $114.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 696
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 1.85" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English




The background rules and institutions



Lying witnesses and social reality: four English marriage cases in the high middle ages



Statistics - the court of York, 1300-1500



Story patterns in the court of York in the fourteenth century



Story patterns in the court of York in the fifteenth century



Ely



Paris



Cambrai - the courts and the numbers



Cambrai and Brussels - the content of the sentences



Divorce a mensa et thoro and salvo iure thori (separation)



Social practice, formal rule, and the medieval canon law of incest



Broader comparisons: English and Franco-Belgian marriage cases in the later middle ages and a glimpse at the rest of western Europe


Epilogue and conclusion