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The trials and joys of marriage.
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ISBN: 1580440355 Year: 2002 Publisher: Kalamazoo Medieval Institute Publications


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La femme ravie : le mariage par rapt dans les sociétés occidentales du Haut Moyen Age
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ISBN: 9782503528991 2503528996 Year: 2012 Volume: 12 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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"Enlever une femme pour l’épouser n’a pas toujours été un crime. C’est à partir du IVe siècle que le rapt est condamné par la loi. Le livre analyse la pratique, la perception et la répression du rapt depuis la fin de l’Antiquité jusqu’au Xe siècle. Pratique constante, les enlèvements sont le fruit des tensions générées par le mariage dans une société où la compétition, les stratégies d’alliance, les impératifs de la vengeance laissent peu de place aux choix individuels. Mais, à partir de l’époque carolingienne, l’Église renforce sa pression sur la société et pèse avec force sur le mariage, considéré comme la base et le ciment de la société chrétienne : le rapt, véritable antithèse du mariage carolingien, de crime devient alors un sacrilège, remettant en cause l’ordre du monde. Paradoxalement, alors même que le rapt est condamné avec sévérité par les lois civiles et religieuses, il continue d’être une pratique génératrice de prestige et de richesse et, surtout, il commence à apparaître sous un jour flatteur dans les chroniques : le ravisseur devient progressivement un héros fondateur de lignée."--


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Stone fidelity : marriage and emotion in Medieval tomb sculpture
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ISBN: 9781783272716 9781787446922 1783272716 1787446921 Year: 2023 Publisher: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press,

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Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Phiilip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their 'stone fidelity'. This first full account of the 'double tomb' places its rich tradition into dialogue with powerful discourses of gender, marriage, politics and emotion during the Middle Ages. As well as offering new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval tombs, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, it draws attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe, providing an innovative vantage point from which to reconsider the material culture of medieval marriage.

Marriage, money and divorce in Medieval Islamic society
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ISBN: 052184715X 0521045800 9780521045803 9780521847155 9780511497506 0511121911 9780511121913 0511111541 9780511111549 0511111215 9780511111211 0511497504 128016350X 9781280163500 1107141060 9781107141063 0511197691 9780511197697 0511331304 9780511331305 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage,Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property between spouses made divorce easy and normative, initiated by wives as often as by their husbands. This carefully researched work of social history is interwoven with intimate accounts of individual medieval lives, making for a truly compelling read. It will be of interest to scholars of all disciplines concerned with the history of women and gender in Islam.

Law, marriage, and society in the later Middle Ages : arguments about marriage in five courts.
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ISBN: 9780521877282 0521877288 9780511511776 0511371470 1107182921 9786611218027 0511371527 0511371489 0511371519 0511511779 1281218022 0511371500 0511371462 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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This is a study of marriage litigation 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.


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Les stratégies matrimoniales, IXe-XIIIe siècles
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ISBN: 9782503549231 2503549233 Year: 2013 Volume: 14 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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"Depuis une soixantaine d’années, le structuralisme a mis l’alliance au coeur de l’étude de la parenté. S’inspirant de l’anthropologie, les historiens tentent ainsi de dégager les règles qui président à l’échange de femmes entre les familles médiévales. Ils sont cependant conscients de la spécificité du Moyen Âge, où le mariage est fortement infl uencé par le christianisme, par le droit romain, et plus généralement par des normes écrites et abstraites dépassant le pragmatisme quotidien des chefs lignagers. Il est vrai qu’au sein de l’aristocratie, les pratiques matrimoniales ont longtemps obéi à des logiques patrimoniales. Le douaire, apporté par le mari, ou la dot, cédée par les parents de la mariée, « font » traditionnellement le mariage. Du reste, l’alliance est trop souvent conclue pour entériner une trêve entre deux troupes ennemies, pour faciliter l’ascension d’un guerrier fidèle que son seigneur récompense par la main de sa fille ou pour obtenir un parti prestigieux. Elle participe donc de l’effort d’une parentèle pour prendre et pour conserver le pouvoir. Elle réduit la future épouse, et peut-être aussi son jeune fiancé, au rôle de l’actrice passive des décisions prises par les aînés de la maison. Aussi solide et enraciné qu’il puisse paraître, ce modèle cède, du moins en partie, aux valeurs évangéliques véhiculées par le clergé savant : unicité, indissolubilité, consensualisme, exogamie extrême… Une telle acculturation (ou plutôt « inculturation », adaptation du christianisme à une société donnée) ne se fait pas sans heurts. Il en va de même avec le remplacement des coutumes germaniques par le droit romain renaissant, qui impose la dot au détriment du douaire. Ces mutations n’interviennent pas seulement dans les pratiques des nobles, mais aussi dans leur imaginaire et dans leurs mentalités. Elles sont particulièrement à l’oeuvre entre les IXe et XIIIe siècles où l’alliance prend à jamais un nouveau visage." -- Quatrième de couverture

Marriage, sex and civic culture in late medieval London
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ISBN: 9780812239386 0812239385 1322512639 0812203976 Year: 2006 Volume: *63 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, Shannon McSheffrey focuses her study on England's largest city in the second half of the fifteenth century. Marriage was a religious union-one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and imbued with deep spiritual significance-but the marital unit of husband and wife was also the fundamental domestic, social, political, and economic unit of medieval society. As such, marriage created political alliances at all levels, from the arena of international politics to local neighborhoods. Sexual relationships outside marriage were even more complicated. McSheffrey notes that medieval Londoners saw them as variously attributable to female seduction or to male lustfulness, as irrelevant or deeply damaging to society and to the body politic, as economically productive or wasteful of resources. Yet, like marriage, sexual relationships were also subject to control and influence from parents, relatives, neighbors, civic officials, parish priests, and ecclesiastical judges. Although by medieval canon law a marriage was irrevocable from the moment a man and a woman exchanged vows of consent before two witnesses, in practice marriage was usually a socially complicated process involving many people. McSheffrey looks more broadly at sex, governance, and civic morality to show how medieval patriarchy extended a far wider reach than a father's governance over his biological offspring. By focusing on a particular time and place, she not only elucidates the culture of England's metropolitan center but also contributes generally to our understanding of the social mechanisms through which premodern European people negotiated their lives.

Medieval marriage : symbolism and society
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ISBN: 0198208219 0191716693 0199239789 1423753054 0191518751 9786610753444 1280753447 9780191518751 9780198208211 9780199239788 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the thirteenth century are presented, building on the author's Medieval Marriage Sermons. In marriage preaching symbolism was central. Marriage symbolism also became a social force through law, and laybehind the combination of monogamy and indissolubility which made the medieval Church's marriage system a unique development in


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Pluralism in the Middle Ages : hybrid identities, conversion, and mixed marriages in medieval Iberia.
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ISBN: 9780415881319 0415881315 9780203800478 9781136622069 9781136622106 9781136622113 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Routledge


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Papacy, monarchy and marriage, 860-1600
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ISBN: 9781316319383 1316319385 1316322742 131632608X 1316329429 1107660629 1107477158 1316332764 1107062535 1316316041 131628865X 9781107477155 9781316332764 9781316329429 9781107062535 9781107660625 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This analysis of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explains how and how far popes controlled royal entry into and exits from their marriages. In the period between c.860 and 1600, the personal lives of kings became the business of the papacy. d'Avray explores the rationale for papal involvement in royal marriages and uses them to analyse the structure of church-state relations. The marital problems of the Carolingian Lothar II, of English kings - John, Henry III, and Henry VIII - and other monarchs, especially Spanish and French, up to Henri IV of France and La Reine Margot, have their place in this exploration of how canon law came to constrain pragmatic political manoeuvring within a system increasingly rationalised from the mid-thirteenth century on. Using documents presented in the author's Dissolving Royal Marriages, the argument brings out hidden connections between legal formality, annulments, and dispensations, at the highest social level.

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