To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400–1600 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521867363 ISBN 13: 9780521867368

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"...(T)he volume offers a rich analysis of marriage in the West and provides a particularly useful resource to the academic and less specialized audiences."
Cristina Mitrovici, Comitatus

...a marvelous contribution to our understanding of medieval marriage traditions based on an analysis of the documents that preserve them." --Journal of Interdisciplinary Hisotry

Descrizione del libro:

This 2007 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521867363
• ISBN 13: 9780521867368
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 536
• Redattore: Reynolds Philip L., Witte Jr John