The family has become a subject of increasing scrutiny in recent
years, giving special relevance to this work by the late Michael
Sheehan. Collected here for the first time, Sheehan's papers
contain the fruits of a forty-year-long career of archival research
and interpretation of documents on property, marriage, family,
sexuality, and law in medieval Europe. Marked by an early
orientation and developing focus on the status of women in the
Middle Ages, the work of Michael Sheehan displays a unique tapestry
of the social and legal realities of medieval marriages and family
life.
Sheehan's research focused on the parallel study and
interpretation of Church law and cases drawn from ecclesiastical
court registers. By analysing the emergence of the last will as a
legal and social document, he brought a new interpretation to the
definition and codification of Christian marriage and the family
and how these institutions functioned in society. Although his
approach was largely by way of canon law, he was invariably at pins
to incorporate solid support from such related fields as theology,
the social and popular history of religion, and the history of
sexuality and sexual behaviour. As a result, these essays throw
light on many social realities in medieval Europe and illustrate
the development of a methodology for others to follow.
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