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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Charles Donahue, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946843X
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages by : Charles Donahue, Jr.

Download or read book Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Charles Donahue, Jr. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Charles Donahue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511371486
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Charles Donahue and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage litigation in York, Ely, Paris, Cambrai, and Brussels during the medieval period.

Marriage in Medieval England

Author : Conor McCarthy
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831020
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Marriage in Medieval England written by Conor McCarthy and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts, including Beowulf, the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters. Focusing on a number of key themes important across the period, individual chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love, sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Love, Marriage, and Family Ties in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Isabel Davis
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Marriage, and Family Ties in the Later Middle Ages written by Isabel Davis and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the current fashion for research on the family and domesticity in the past. It draws together work from various disciplines - historical, art-historical and literary - with their very different source materials and from a broad geographical area, including some countries - such as Croatia and Poland - which are not usually considered in standard text books on the medieval family. This volume considers the various affective relationships within and around the family and the manner in which those relationships were regulated and ritualized in more public arenas. Despite their disparate approaches and geographical spread, these essays share many thematic concerns; the ideologies which structured gender roles, inheritance rights, incest law and the ethics of domestic violence, for example, are all considered here. This collection originates from the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2001 when the special strand was entitled Domus and Familia and attracted huge participation. This book aims to reflect that richness and variety whilst contributing to an expanding area of historical enquiry.

Divorce in Medieval England

Author : Sara Margaret Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415825164
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Divorce in Medieval England written by Sara Margaret Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the fact that couples regularly divorced on the grounds of spousal incompatibility.

Medieval Women and the Law

Author : Noël James Menuge
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851159324
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Women and the Law written by Noël James Menuge and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages (c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care, custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution, the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors: P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS, KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES

A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age

Author : Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135017971X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age by : Joanne M. Ferraro

Download or read book A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age written by Joanne M. Ferraro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and church leaders agreed on a unique outline of the institution and its legal framework, the essential features of which remained in force until the 1980s. The medieval Western European definition of marriage was unique: before the legal consequences of marriage came into being, the parties had to promise to engage in sexual union only with one partner and to remain in the marriage until one of the parties died. This requirement had profound implications for inheritance rules and for the organization of the family economy; it was explained and justified in a multitude of theological discussions and legal decisions across all faiths on the European continent. Normative texts, built on the foundations of the scriptures of several religious traditions, provided an impressive intellectual framework around marriage. In addition, developments in iconography, including sculpture and painting, projected the dominant model of marriage, while social, demographic and cultural changes encouraged its adoption. This volume traces the medieval discussion of marriage in practice, law, theology and iconography. It provides an examination of the wider political and economic context of marriage and offers an overview of the ebb and flow of society's ideas about how expressions of human sexuality fit within the confines of a clearly defined social structure and ideology. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.

The Wealth of Wives

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195311760
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth of Wives written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Ch. 1: Daughter and Identities. Ch. 2: Education and Apprenticeship. Ch. 3: Heiresses, Dowry, and Dower. Ch. 4: The Formation of Marriage. Ch. 5: Recovery of Dower and Widows' Remarriage. Ch. 6: For Better or For Worse: The Marital Experience. Ch. 7: The Standard of Living and Women as Consumers. Ch. 8: Women as Entrepreneurs. Ch. 9: Servants, Casual Labor, and Vendors. Conclusion. Appendix I. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography

Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe

Author : Michael McMahon Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708313541
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe by : Michael McMahon Sheehan

Download or read book Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe written by Michael McMahon Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents the work of the late Michael Sheehan on the social and legal realities of medieval marriages and family life. Evidence drawn from records of church courts is juxtaposed with statements of canon and civil law of medieval Europe, thus throwing light on the way marriage and family life both influenced and was influenced by evolving definitions of law. The role of women in medieval social and economic life is a major theme, or underlying sub-theme, of these articles.

Medieval Households

Author : David HERLIHY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038606
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Households written by David HERLIHY and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Ancient societies lacked the concept of the family as a moral unit and displayed an extraordinary variety of living arrangements, from the huge palaces of the rich to the hovels of the slaves. Not until the seventh and eighth centuries did families take on a more standard form as a result of the congruence of material circumstances, ideological pressures, and the force of cultural norms. By the eleventh century, families had acquired a characteristic kinship organization first visible among elites and then spreading to other classes. From an indifferent network of descent through either male or female lines evolved the new concept of patrilineage, or descent and inheritance through the male line. For the first time a clear set of emotional ties linked family members. It is the author's singular contribution to show how, as they evolved from their heritages of either barbarian society or classical antiquity, medieval households developed commensurable forms, distinctive ties of kindred, and a tighter moral and emotional unity to produce the family as we know it. Herlihy's range of sources is prodigious: ancient Roman and Greek authors, Aquinas, Augustine, archives of monasteries, sermons of saints, civil and canon law, inquisitorial records, civil registers, charters, censuses and surveys, wills, marriage certificates, birth records, and more. This well-written book will be the starting point for all future studies of medieval domestic life.

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062016733
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages written by Frances Gies and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic “Medieval Life” series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval period—reissued for the first time in decades. “Some particular books that I found useful for Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention. Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” —George R. R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Throughout history, the significance of the family—the basic social unit—has been vital. In Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies trace the development of marriage and the family from the medieval era to early modern times. It describes how the Roman and barbarian cultural streams merged under the influence of the Christian church to forge new concepts, customs, laws, and practices. Century by century, the Gies follow the development—sometimes gradual, at other times revolutionary—of significant components in the history of the family including: The basic functions of the family as a production unit, as well as its religious, social, judicial, and educational roles. The shift of marriage from private arrangement between families to public ceremony between individuals, and the adjustments in dowry, bride-price, and counter-dowry. The development of consanguinity rules and incest taboos in church law and lay custom. The peasant family in its varying condition of being free or unfree, poor, middling, or rich. The aristocratic estate, the problem of the younger son, and the disinheritance of daughters. The Black Death and its long-term effects on the family. Sex attitudes and customs: the effects of variations in age of men and women at marriage. The changing physical environment of noble, peasant, and urban families. Arrangements by families for old age and retirement. Expertly researched, master historians Frances and Joseph Gies—whose books were used by George R.R. Martin in his research for Game of Thrones—paint a compelling, detailed portrait of family life and social customs in one of the most riveting eras in history.

Family Law and Society in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era

Author : Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319422879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Family Law and Society in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era written by Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the study of family law and society in Europe, from medieval to contemporary ages. It examines the topic from a legal and social point of view. Furthermore, it investigates those aspects of the new family legal history that have not commonly been examined in depth by legal historians. The volume provides a new 'global' interpretative key of the development of family law in Europe. It presents essays about family and the Christian influence, family and criminal law, family and civil liability, filiation (legitimate, natural and adopted children), and family and children labour law. In addition, it explores specific topics related to marriage, such as the matrimonial property regime from a European comparative perspective, and impediments to marriage, such as bigamy. The book also addresses topics including family, society and European juridical science.

Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600

Author : Mia Korpiola
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004211438
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 written by Mia Korpiola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book approaches medieval marriage law and custom from a comparative perspective. Although concentrating on source material from one region, some articles discuss the regionality and universality of matrimonial practices and norms. Others compare several regions.

Wife and Widow in Medieval England

Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472104154
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Wife and Widow in Medieval England by : Sue Sheridan Walker

Download or read book Wife and Widow in Medieval England written by Sue Sheridan Walker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of women in medieval law and society

Property and Virginity

Author : Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8779342051
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)

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Book Synopsis Property and Virginity by : Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir

Download or read book Property and Virginity written by Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity changed the culture and society of Iceland, as it also did in other parts of Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One of the important areas of change involved the introduction of new rules on the legal requirements for marriage. Property and Virginity examines Icelandic law codes, marriage contracts, and other documents related to court proceedings. Based on extensive source material never researched before, this pioneer study explores the very gradual Christianization of marriage in Iceland. It shows that this process, which lasted for hundreds of years, had consequences for family and kinship politics, for inheritance and property transfer, and for gender relations. As canon law began to change the old ritual of betrothal, the virginal state of the woman entering marriage gained greater importance. At the same time, marriage in the Late Middle Ages continued to include many elements of its older understanding as a contract concerning property transfer between families. A new perception of gender relations also arose, whereby women became partners in the actual contract-making. The 'handshake' was now between the husband and wife, instead of between the father of the bride and her future husband. The rituals connected to the different bonds gained new meaning: marriage was no longer a financial matter alone, but also involved religious beliefs and a closer union of the spouses.

Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe

Author : Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe by : Bernard S. Bachrach

Download or read book Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe written by Bernard S. Bachrach and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Paris. This collection honors Bryce Lyon and his considerable impact on medieval studies as a whole.

English Society in the Later Middle Ages

Author : S.H. Rigby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349239690
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis English Society in the Later Middle Ages by : S.H. Rigby

Download or read book English Society in the Later Middle Ages written by S.H. Rigby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the social structure of England in the period 1200 to 1500? What were the basic forms of social inequality? To what extent did such divisions generate social conflict? How significantly did English society change during this period and what were the causes of social change? Is it useful to see medieval social structure in terms of the theories and concepts produced within the medieval period itself? What does modern social theory have to offer the historian seeking to understand English society in the later middle ages? These are the questions which this book seeks to answer. Beginning with an analysis of class structure of medieval England, Part One of this book asks to what extent class conflict was inherent within class relations and discusses the contrasting successes and outcomes of such conflict in town and country. Part Two of the book examines to what extent such class divisions interacted with other forms of social inequality, such as those between orders (nobility and clergy), between men and women, and those arising from membership of a status-group (the Jews). Dr Rigby's discussion of medieval English society is located within the context of recent historical and sociological debates about the nature of social stratification and, using the work of social theorists such as Parkin and Runciman, offers a synthesis of the Marxist and Weberian approaches to social structure. The book should be extremely useful to those undergraduates beginning their studies of medieval England whilst, in offering a new interpretative framework within which to examine social structure, also interesting those historians who are more familiar with this period.