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.
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