To Have and To Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600
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 document...
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ftemoryunivsl:oai:scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu:cslr-books-1087 2023-05-15T16:48:26+02:00 To Have and To Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 Reynolds, Philip L. Witte, John, Jr. 2009-02-01T08:00:00Z https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/88 unknown Emory Law Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/88 Center for the Study of Law and Religion Books Law Marriage Religion European Law Law and Religion text 2009 ftemoryunivsl 2022-05-23T11:32:37Z 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. https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1087/thumbnail.jpg Text Iceland Emory Law Scholarly Commons |
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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. https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1087/thumbnail.jpg |
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