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Dissolving Royal Marriages

Dissolving Royal Marriages

Hardcover

Genealogy & HeraldryGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1107062500
ISBN13: 9781107062504
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 24 2014
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dissolving Royal Marriages adopts a unique chronological and geographical perspective to present a comparative overview of royal divorce cases from the Middle Ages through to the Reformation period. Drawing from original translations of key source documents, the book sheds new light on some of the most prominent and elite divorce proceedings in Western history, including Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. The comprehensive commentary that accompanies these materials allows readers to grasp, for the first time, how the constructs of canon law helped shape the legal arguments on which specific cases were founded, and better understand the events that actually unfolded in the courtrooms. In his case-by-case exploration of elaborate witness statements, extensive legal negotiations and political wrangling, d'Avray shows us how little the canonical law for the dissolution of marriage changed over time in this fascinating new study of Church-state relations and papal power over princes.

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