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To have and to hold, marrying and its documentation in Western Christendom, 400--1600, edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte

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To have and to hold, marrying and its documentation in Western Christendom, 400--1600, edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte

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eng

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non fiction

Main title

To have and to hold

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

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648309882

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edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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marrying and its documentation in Western Christendom, 400--1600

Summary

This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage and how people in the day understood it. Drawing on archival evidence from classical Rome, medieval France, England, Iceland, and Ireland, and Renaissance Florence, Douai, and Geneva, the volume provides a rich interdisciplinary analysis of the range of marital customs, laws, and practices in Western Christendom. The chapters include freshly translated specimen documents that bring the reader closer to the actual practice of marrying than the normative literature of pre-modern theology and canon law.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Marrying and its documentation in pre-modern Europe: consent, celebration, and property / Philiip L. Reynolds -- Marrying and its documentation in later Roman law / Judith Evans-Grubbs -- Marrying and the tabulae nuptiales in Roman North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine / David G. Hunter -- Dotal charters in the Frankish tradition / Philip L. Reynolds -- Marriage and diplomatics: five dower charters from the regions of Laon and Soisson, 1163-1181 / Laurent Morelle -- Marriage agreements from twelfth century Southern France / Cynthia Johnson -- Marriage contracts in medieval England / R.H. Helmholz -- Marriage contracts and the church courts of fourteenth century England / Frederik Pedersen -- Marrying and marriage litigation in medieval Ireland / Art Cosgrove -- Marriage contracts in medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir -- Contracting marriage in Renaissance Florence / Thomas Kuehm -- Marital property law as socio-cultural text: the case of late-medieval Douai / Martha C. Howell -- Marriage contracts, liturgies, and properties in Reformation Geneva / John Witte Jr

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