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1 online resource |
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Early modern history: society and culture
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Early modern history (Palgrave (Firm))
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2: The Matrimonial Tribunal and the Procedure in Marriage Litigations; 1 Composition of the Tribunal and the Parties in a Cause; 2 The Petition; 3 The Citation; 4 Contumacy; 5 Postponements; 6 Exceptions; 7 The Formal Joinder of Issue: The litis contestatio; 8 The Positions; 9 The Proof; 9.1 The Confession; 9.2 Testimonial Proof; 9.3 The Oath; 9.4 Clues and Presumptions, or Nuptial Customs in the Tribunal; 10 The Sentence; 11 The Appeal; 12 The Execution of the Sentence; 13 The Summary Procedure; Notes. |
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Chapter 3: Witnesses and Testimony1 The Deposition and Report; 2 The Witnesses' Oaths; 3 The Formation of Testimony; 4 Perjury: An Open Question; 5 The Burden of Testimony; 5.1 Credibility of Witnesses; 5.2 Witness Credibility and the Parameters of Collective Morality; Notes; Chapter 4: The Office of the Judge: Mediation, Inquisition, Confession; 1 The Office of the Judge; 2 Mediation; 2.1 "Favor Matrimonii"; 2.2 Freedom of Consent: Suits for Betrothals; 2.3 Social Mediation; 3 Inquisition; 4 Confession; 4.1 The Judge as Confessor; 5 From Confessor to Judge. |
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6 Confessors "in Place of the Judge" (in vice iudicis)7 Judges and Women; 7.1 Attack on Parental Authority; 7.2 Introspection and Appeals to Conscience; 7.3 Empowerment; 8 From the Conscience of the Judges to the Conscience of the Women: The Oath; 8.1 Fear of the Sacred: Instruments of Dissuasion and Means of Legitimation; Notes; Chapter 5: "Maybe so": Marriage and Consent in Pre-Ù›Tridentine Venice; 1 "Consent Makes Marriage" (Consensus facit nuptias); 2 The Expression of Consent; 3 "The Bond Between Man and Woman That Cannot Be Dissolved Except by Death"; 4 From Plural Marriage to Polygamy. |
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5 Separation Between a Private Fact and "the Gravest Thing" (res gravissima)6 Conditions and Errors; 6.1 Virginity and Fidelity; 6.2 Dowry Promises; 6.3 Mistaken Identity; 6.4 "Error of Condition" (error conditionis); 7 The Age of Consent; 8 Consent and Parental Coercion; 8.1 "I Wanted to Take Whomever My Father Gave Me"; 8.2 "Fearful Marriage"; Notes ; Chapter 6: Venetian "Matrimonialia": A Quantitative Analysis (1420-1500); Classification; Sentences; Classification; Notes; Chapter 7: Conclusions; Notes; Abbreviations; Manuscript Sources; Archivio Storico del Patriarcato di Venezia. |
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Archivio della Curia Vescovile di PadovaArchivio Storico della Curia Vescovile di Verona; Archivio di Stato di Venezia; Archivio dell'Istituto di Ricovero eEducazione, Venezia; Archivio Segreto Vaticano; Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze; Print Sources; Bibliography; Index. |
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This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent. It offers a strongly representative overview of the changes the Council introduced to centuries-old marriage practices, relegating it to the realm of marginality and deviance and nearly erasing the memory of it altogether. From the eleventh century onward, the Church assured itself of a jurisdictional monopoly over the matter of marriage, operating both in concert and in conflict with secular authorities by virtue of marriage's civil consequences, the first of which regarded the legitimacy of children. Secular tribunals were responsible for patrimonial matters between spouses, though the Church at times inserted itself into these matters either directly, by substituting itself for the secular authority, or indirectly, by influencing Rulings through their own sentences. Lay magistratures, for their part, somewhat eroded the authority of ecclesiastical tribunals by continuing to exercise autonomous jurisdiction over marriage, especially regarding separation and crimes strictly connected to the nuptial bond and its definition, including adultery, bigamy, and rape. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Marriage (Canon law) -- History -- To 1500.
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Marriage (Canon law) -- History -- 16th century.
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Trials -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
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Venice (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
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European history. |
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Religious issues & debates. |
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Legal history. |
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Social & cultural history. |
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HISTORY -- Civilization. |
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HISTORY -- Essays. |
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HISTORY -- Reference. |
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HISTORY -- Social History. |
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ecclesiology. |
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Manners and customs |
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Marriage (Canon law) |
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Trials |
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Italy -- Venice https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdrJByRtHVPkRH39fYByd |
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To 1599 |
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Electronic books.
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History
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McNamara, Celeste, translator.
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Carita e l'eros. English
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Print version: Cristellon, Cecilia. carita e l'eros English. Marriage, the church, and its judges in Renaissance Venice, 1420-1545. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG, [2017] 9783319387994 |
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9783319388007 (electronic bk.) |
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3319388002 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319387994 |
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3319387995 |
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9783319387994 |
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