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

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To Have and to Hold

Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400–1600

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Edited by Philip L. Reynolds, Emory University, Atlanta, John Witte, Emory University, Atlanta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: September 2009
Print publication year: 2007
Online ISBN: 9780511511769
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511769

Subjects: Law: General Interest, Area Studies, Law, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000

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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.

"...(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

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Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400–1600

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-viii

Preface and Acknowledgments
pp ix-xiv

List of Abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

1 - Marrying and Its Documentation in Pre-Modern Europe: Consent, Celebration, and Property
pp 1-42

2 - Marrying and Its Documentation in Later Roman Law
pp 43-94

3 - Marrying and the Tabulae Nuptiales in Roman North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine
pp 95-113

4 - Dotal Charters in the Frankish Tradition
pp 114-164

5 - Marriage and Diplomatics: Five Dower Charters from the Regions of Laon and Soissons, 1163–1181
pp 165-214

6 - Marriage Agreements from Twelfth-Century Southern France
pp 215-259

7 - Marriage Contracts in Medieval England
pp 260-286

8 - Marriage Contracts and the Church Courts of Fourteenth-Century England
pp 287-331

9 - Marrying and Marriage Litigation in Medieval Ireland
pp 332-359

10 - Marriage Contracts in Medieval Iceland
pp 360-389

11 - Contracting Marriage in Renaissance Florence
pp 390-420

12 - Marital Property Law as Socio-Cultural Text: The Case of Late-Medieval Douai
pp 421-452

13 - Marriage Contracts, Liturgies, and Properties in Reformation Geneva
pp 453-488

Index
pp 489-519

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