Law, marriage, and society in the later Middle Ages : arguments about marriage in five courts / Charles Donahue, Jr.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Marriage -- Europe -- History.

Marriage (Canon law) -- History.

1. The background rules and institutions --2. Lying witnesses and social reality: four English marriage cases in the high middle ages --3. Statistics: the Court of York, 1300-1500 --4. Story-patterns in the Court of York in the fourteenth century --5. Story-patterns in the Court of York in the fifteenth century --6. Ely --7. Paris --8. Cambrai and Brussels: the courts and the numbers --9. Cambrai and Brussels: the content of the sentences --10. Divorce a mensa et thoro and salvo iure thori (separation)

This is a study of marriage litigation in European courts applying the late medieval canon law of marriage.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521877282

xix, 672 p. ; 24 cm