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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages - Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts (Hardcover)
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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages - Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts (Hardcover)
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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.
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