To have and to hold : marrying and its documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description:xv, 519 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:Includes "Marriage Contracts in Medieval England" by Richard H. Helmholz.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6254116
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Other authors / contributors:Reynolds, Philip Lyndon, 1950-
Witte, John, Jr., 1959-
Helmholz, R. H.
ISBN:9780521867368 (hardback)
0521867363 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Marrying and Its Documentation in Pre-Modern Europe: Consent, Celebration, and Property
  • 2. Marrying and Its Documentation in Later Roman Law
  • 3. Marrying and the Tabulae Nuptiales in Roman North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine
  • 4. Dotal Charters in the Prankish Tradition
  • 5. Marriage and Diplomatics: Five Dower Charters from the Regions of Laon and Soissons, 1163-1181
  • 6. Marriage Agreements from Twelfth-Century Southern France
  • 7. Marriage Contracts in Medieval England
  • 8. Marriage Contracts and the Church Courts of Fourteenth-Century England
  • 9. Marrying and Marriage Litigation in Medieval Ireland
  • 10. Marriage Contracts in Medieval Iceland
  • 11. Contracting Marriage in Renaissance Florence
  • 12. Marital Property Law as Socio-Cultural Text: The Case of Late-Medieval Douai
  • 13. Marriage Contracts, Liturgies, and Properties in Reformation Geneva
  • Index