Law, marriage, and society in the later Middle Ages : arguments about marriage in five courts / Charles Donahue, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donahue, Charles, Jr., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matrimonial actions--Europe--History--To 1500.

Matrimonial actions.

Matrimonial actions (Canon law)--History--To 1500.

Matrimonial actions (Canon law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 672 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Law, Marriage, & Society in the Later Middle Ages

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a study of marriage litigation (with some reference to sexual offenses) in the archiepiscopal court of York (1300-1500) and the episcopal courts of Ely (1374-1381), Paris (1384-1387), Cambrai (1438-1453), and Brussels (1448-1459). All these courts were, for the most part, correctly applying the late medieval canon law of marriage, but statistical analysis of the cases and results confirms that there were substantial differences both in the types of cases the courts heard and the results they reached. Marriages in England in the later middle ages were often under the control of the parties to the marriage, whereas those in northern France and southern Netherlands were often under the control of the parties' families and social superiors. Within this broad generalization the book brings to light patterns of late medieval men and women manipulating each other and the courts to produce extraordinarily varied results.

Contents:

The background rules and institutions

Lying witnesses and social reality

Statistics

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 and Brussels : the courts and the numbers

Cambrai and Brussels : the content of sentences

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

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

Broader comparisons.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-654) and index.

ISBN:

9786611218027

9780511371479

0511371470

9781107182929

1107182921

9781281218025

1281218022

9780511371486

0511371489

9780511371523

0511371527

9780511511776

0511511779

9780511371516

0511371519

9780511371509

0511371500

9780511371462

0511371462

OCLC:

437198641

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07855 hdl