Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages Donahue Jr. Hardback

Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle AgesArguments about Marriage in Five Courts\nAuthor(s): Charles Donahue, Jr.\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521877282, 978-0521877282\nSynopsis\nThis is a study of marriage litigation (with some reference to sexual offenses) in the archiepiscopal court of York [tel] and the episcopal courts of Ely [tel], Paris [tel], Cambrai [tel], and Brussels [tel]. 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. Marriages in England in the later middle ages were often under the control of the parties to the marriage, whereas those in northern France and southern Netherlands were often under the control of the parties' families and social.