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Title Regional variations in matrimonial law and custom in Europe, 1150-1600 / edited by Mia Korpiola.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Medieval Law and Its Practice
Medieval law and its practice.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : regional variations and harmonization in medieval matrimonial law / Mia Korpiola -- E pluribus unum : custom, the professionalization of medieval law and regional variations in marriage formation / James A. Brundage -- The regional origins of theories about marital consent and consummation during the twelfth century / Philip L. Reynolds -- Separation and marital property in late medieval England and the Franco-Belgian region / Monique Vleeschouwers-Van Melkebeek -- Widows, property, and law in Lithuania and some other countries / Jurgita Kunsmanaite -- Images of marriage : a comparison of law, custom and practice in medieval Europe / Anthony Musson -- A regional cluster : Italian secular laws on abduction, forced and clandestine marriage (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) / Trevor Dean -- Forfeiting the marriage portion : punishing female adultery in the secular courts of England and Italy / Caroline Dunn -- Marriage disputes in the consistorial court of freising in the -- Late Middle Ages / Kirsi Salonen -- Marriage causes in late medieval Sweden : the evidence of Bishop Hans Brask's register (1522-27) / Mia Korpiola -- The marriage process in the light of family correspondence : a comparative perspective on the Swedish evidence / Anu Lahtinen -- Rituals before tribunals in renaissance Italy : continuity and change, 1400-1600 / Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi -- Conclusion : comparative approaches to marriage in the later Middle Ages / Charles Donahue, Jr.
Summary 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.
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Subject Marriage law -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Marriage law.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Customary law -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Customary law.
Chronological Term To 1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Marriage law.
Added Author Korpiola, Mia.
Other Form: Print version: 9786613365965
ISBN 9789004210486 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9004210482 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9789004211438 (electronic book)
9004211438 (electronic book)
1283365960
9781283365963
Standard No. 9786613365965