Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe

by Sheehan, Michael M.; Farge, James K.; Rosenthal, Joel Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780802007094
• ISBN10: 0802007090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

A collection of essays by Michael Sheehan, whose work and interpretation on medieval property, marriage, family, sexuality, and law has insprired scholars for 40 years.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Report of a Thesis on the Will in Medieval England	p. 3
A List of Thirteenth-Century English Wills	p. 8
The Influence of Canon Law on the Property Rights of Married Women in England	p. 16
Canon Law and English Institutions: Some Notes on Current Research	p. 31
The Formation and Stability of Marriage in Fourteenth-Century England: Evidence of an Ely Register	p. 38
Marriage and Family in English Conciliar and Synodal Legislation	p. 77
Choice of Marriage Partner in the Middle Ages: Development and Mode of Application of a Theory of Marriage	p. 87
Marriage Theory and Practice in the Conciliar Legislation and Diocesan Statutes of Medieval England	p. 118
The Wife of Bath and Her Four Sisters: Reflections on a Woman's Life in the Age of Chaucer	p. 177
English Wills and the Records of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions	p. 199
Theory and Practice: Marriage of the Unfree and the Poor in Medieval Society	p. 211
The European Family and Canon Law	p. 247
Maritalis affectio Revisited	p. 262
The Bishop of Rome to a Barbarian King on the Rituals of Marriage	p. 278
Sexuality, Marriage, Celibacy, and the Family in Central and Northern Italy: Christian Legal and Moral Guides in the Early Middle Ages	p. 292
The Bequest of Land in England in the High Middle Ages: Testaments and the Law	p. 311
Bibliography of Michael M. Sheehan, CSB	p. 324
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