Marriage Litigation In Medieval England

Author : Helmholz,R. H. Helmholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
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Release : 2007-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521035627

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Marriage Litigation in Medieval England by Helmholz,R. H. Helmholz Pdf

This book tells one part of the long history of the institution of marriage. Questions concerning the formation and annulment of marriage came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the church courts during the Middle Ages. Drawing on unpublished records of these courts, Professor Helmholz describes the practical side of matrimonial jurisdiction and relates it to his outline of the formal law of marriage. He investigates the nature of the cases heard, the procedure used, the people involved and changes over the period covered, all of which add to what is known about marriage and legal practice in medieval England. The concluding assessment of canonical jurisdiction over marriage suggests that the application of the law was more successful than is usually thought.

Author : Conor McCarthy
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1843831023

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Marriage in Medieval England by Conor McCarthy Pdf

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts, including Beowulf, the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters. Focusing on a number of key themes important across the period, individual chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love, sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Author : R. H. Helmholz
Publisher : Wm Gaunt & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0912004479

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Marriage Litigation in Medieval England by R. H. Helmholz Pdf

This book tells one part of the long history of the institution of marriage. Questions concerning the formation and annulment of marriage came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the church courts during the Middle Ages. Drawing on unpublished records of these courts, Professor Helmholz describes the practical side of matrimonial jurisdiction and relates it to his outline of the formal law of marriage. He investigates the nature of the cases heard, the procedure used, the people involved and changes over the period covered, all of which add to what is known about marriage and legal practice in medieval England. The concluding assessment of canonical jurisdiction over marriage suggests that the application of the law was more successful than is usually thought.

Author : Richard H. Helmholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:180460691

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Marriage Litigation in Medieval England by Richard H. Helmholz Pdf

Author : Frederik Pedersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826443816

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Marriage Disputes in Medieval England by Frederik Pedersen Pdf

Intimate details about the personal lives of medieval people are frustratingly rare. We seldom know what the men and women of the middle ages thought about marriage, let alone about sex. The records of the church courts of the province of York, mainly dating from the fourteenth century, provides a welcome light on private, family life and on individual reactions to it. They include a wide range of fascinating cases involving disputes about the validity of marriage, consent, sex, marital violence, impotence and property disputes. They also show how widely the laws of marriage were both known and accepted. Marriage Disputes in Medieval England offers a remarkable insight into personal life in the middle ages.

Author : Sara Margaret Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415825160

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Divorce in Medieval England by Sara Margaret Butler Pdf

Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the fact that couples regularly divorced on the grounds of spousal incompatibility.

Author : Charles Donahue, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139468435

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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Charles Donahue, Jr. Pdf

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.

Author : Mia Korpiola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004211438

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Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 by Mia Korpiola Pdf

The book approaches medieval marriage law and custom from a comparative perspective. Although concentrating on source material from one region, some articles discuss the regionality and universality of matrimonial practices and norms. Others compare several regions.

Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : England
ISBN : 0472104152

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Wife and Widow in Medieval England by Sue Sheridan Walker Pdf

Examines the role of women in medieval law and society

Author : Noël James Menuge
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 085115932X

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Medieval Women and the Law by Noël James Menuge Pdf

Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages (c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care, custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution, the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors: P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS, KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES

Author : Diana O'Hara
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0719062519

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Courtship and Constraint by Diana O'Hara Pdf

This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of private and public negotiation, often fraught with anxiety. If completed successfully it brought respectability, the privileges of marriage and adulthood, and a stable union between socially, economically, and emotionally compatible couples. Using Kent church court and probate material dating from the 15th to the end of the 16th century, the book blends historical and anthropological perspectives to suggest novel and exciting approaches to the making of marriage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580445146

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Love & Marriage in Late Medieval London by Anonim Pdf

Depositions (or testimony) in marriage cases brought before fifteenth-century English church courts reveal the attitudes and feelings of medieval people towards the marital bond.

Author : Wolfgang P. Müller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108962445

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Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517 by Wolfgang P. Müller Pdf

From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy, Catalonia, and Castile, this study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P. Müller draws attention to the existence of public penitential proceedings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the difference in demand, as well as highlighting variations in how individuals obtained written documentation of their marital status. Integrating legal and theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals about both institutions.

Author : Joanne M. Ferraro,Frederik Pedersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350179714

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age by Joanne M. Ferraro,Frederik Pedersen Pdf

Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and church leaders agreed on a unique outline of the institution and its legal framework, the essential features of which remained in force until the 1980s. The medieval Western European definition of marriage was unique: before the legal consequences of marriage came into being, the parties had to promise to engage in sexual union only with one partner and to remain in the marriage until one of the parties died. This requirement had profound implications for inheritance rules and for the organization of the family economy; it was explained and justified in a multitude of theological discussions and legal decisions across all faiths on the European continent. Normative texts, built on the foundations of the scriptures of several religious traditions, provided an impressive intellectual framework around marriage. In addition, developments in iconography, including sculpture and painting, projected the dominant model of marriage, while social, demographic and cultural changes encouraged its adoption. This volume traces the medieval discussion of marriage in practice, law, theology and iconography. It provides an examination of the wider political and economic context of marriage and offers an overview of the ebb and flow of society's ideas about how expressions of human sexuality fit within the confines of a clearly defined social structure and ideology. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.

Author : Charles Donahue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Matrimonial actions
ISBN : 0511371489

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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Charles Donahue Pdf

Marriage litigation in York, Ely, Paris, Cambrai, and Brussels during the medieval period.