Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009818436506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introductory text
- Abduction, marriage, and consent
- Abduction marriage for all
- Sources
- Structure
- Works cited
- 1. Perks and Perils of Being an Heiress
- Introductory text
- Reputation, property, and ages of consent
- From excommunication to decapitation
- Age and consent as legal parameters
- Increasing criminalization: Ghent (1191-1438)
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 2. Abduction's Who, How, and Why
- Introductory text
- The impossible marriage
- A gendered offense?
- A family affair
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 3. Consent In and Out of the Courtroom
- Introductory text
- Communicating consent and coercion
- Judging consent and coercion
- Explaining and understanding consent and coercion
- Life after abduction
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 4. What Authorities Did to Help
- Introductory note
- Secular authorities: between repression and reconciliation
- Two- and three-party cases before the consistory courts
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
