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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Lyndon Reynolds; John Witte |
| ISBN: | 0521867363 9780521867368 |
| OCLC Number: | 70054245 |
| Description: | xv, 519 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Marrying and its documentation in pre-modern Europe: consent, celebration, and property / Philiip L. Reynolds -- Marrying and its documentation in later Roman law / Judith Evans-Grubbs -- Marrying and the tabulae nuptiales in Roman North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine / David G. Hunter -- Dotal charters in the Frankish tradition / Philip L. Reynolds -- Marriage and diplomatics: five dower charters from the regions of Laon and Soisson, 1163-1181 / Laurent Morelle -- Marriage agreements from twelfth century Southern France / Cynthia Johnson -- Marriage contracts in medieval England / R.H. Helmholz -- Marriage contracts and the church courts of fourteenth century England / Frederik Pedersen -- Marrying and marriage litigation in medieval Ireland / Art Cosgrove -- Marriage contracts in medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir -- Contracting marriage in Renaissance Florence / Thomas Kuehm -- Marital property law as socio-cultural text: the case of late-medieval Douai / Martha C. Howell -- Marriage contracts, liturgies, and properties in Reformation Geneva / John Witte Jr. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte. |
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"...(T)he volume offers a rich analysis of marriage in the West and provides a particularly useful resource to the academic and less specialized audiences." Cristina Mitrovici, Comitatus ...a marvelous contribution to our understanding of medieval marriage traditions based on an analysis of the documents that preserve them." --Journal of Interdisciplinary Hisotry Read more...
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