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To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400 1600

To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400 1600

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General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryRelationships

ISBN10: 1107406277
ISBN13: 9781107406278
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 9 2012
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property settlements, prenuptial contracts, court testimony, church weddings, and more. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage. After analyzing the foundations of Western marriage set by Roman law and Patristic theology, the chapters provide vivid case studies of marital documents and practices in medieval France, England, Iceland, and Ireland, and in Renaissance Florence, Douai, and Geneva.

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