Regional variations in matrimonial law and custom in Europe, 1150-1600
By: edited by Mia Korpiola
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004210486
Subjects: Marriage law; Customary law; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : regional variations and harmonization in medieval matrimonial law / Mia Korpiola; title: E pluribus unum : custom, the professionalization of medieval law and regional variations in marriage formation / James A. Brundage; title: The regional origins of theories about marital consent and consummation during the twelfth century / Philip L. Reynolds; title: Separation and marital property in late medieval England and the Franco-Belgian region / Monique Vleeschouwers-Van Melkebeek; title: Widows, property, and law in Lithuania and some other countries / Jurgita Kunsmanaite; title: Images of marriage : a comparison of law, custom and practice in medieval Europe / Anthony Musson; title: A regional cluster : Italian secular laws on abduction, forced and clandestine marriage (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) / Trevor Dean; title: Forfeiting the marriage portion : punishing female adultery in the secular courts of England and Italy / Caroline Dunn; title: Marriage disputes in the consistorial court of freising in the; title: Late Middle Ages / Kirsi Salonen; title: Marriage causes in late medieval Sweden : the evidence of Bishop Hans Brask's register (1522-27) / Mia Korpiola; title: The marriage process in the light of family correspondence : a comparative perspective on the Swedish evidence / Anu Lahtinen; title: Rituals before tribunals in renaissance Italy : continuity and change, 1400-1600 / Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi; title: Conclusion : comparative approaches to marriage in the later Middle Ages / Charles Donahue, Jr.