Law and Kinship in Thirteenth–Century England Worby Hardback 9780861933051

Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century EnglandAuthor(s): Sam Worby\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Royal Historical Society\nISBN-13: 9780861933051, 978-0861933051\nSynopsis\nFirst comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.\n\nTwo separate legal jurisdictions concerned with family relations held sway in England during the high middle ages: canon law and common law. In thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, kinship rules dominated the lives of laymenand laywomen. They determined whom they might marry (decided in the canon law courts) and they determined from whom they might inherit (decided in the common law courts). This book seeks to uncover the association between the two, exploring the ways in which the two legal systems shared ideas about family relationship, where the one jurisdiction - the common law - was concerned about ties of consanguinity and where the other - canon law - was.