Regional variations in matrimonial law and custom in Europe, 1150-1600 / edited by Mia Korpiola.

• Superior document: Medieval law and its practice, v. 12
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Korpiola, Mia.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval law and its practice ; v. 12.
• Physical Description: vi, 323 p. :; ill. (some col.).

Table of Contents

Introduction : regional variations and harmonization in medieval matrimonial law / Mia Korpiola -- E pluribus unum : custom, the professionalization of medieval law and regional variations in marriage formation / James A. Brundage -- The regional origins of theories about marital consent and consummation during the twelfth century / Philip L. Reynolds -- Separation and marital property in late medieval England and the Franco-Belgian region / Monique Vleeschouwers-Van Melkebeek -- Widows, property, and law in Lithuania and some other countries / Jurgita Kunsmanaite -- Images of marriage : a comparison of law, custom and practice in medieval Europe / Anthony Musson -- A regional cluster : Italian secular laws on abduction, forced and clandestine marriage (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) / Trevor Dean -- Forfeiting the marriage portion : punishing female adultery in the secular courts of England and Italy / Caroline Dunn -- Marriage disputes in the consistorial court of freising in the -- Late Middle Ages / Kirsi Salonen -- Marriage causes in late medieval Sweden : the evidence of Bishop Hans Brask's register (1522-27) / Mia Korpiola -- The marriage process in the light of family correspondence : a comparative perspective on the Swedish evidence / Anu Lahtinen -- Rituals before tribunals in renaissance Italy : continuity and change, 1400-1600 / Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi -- Conclusion : comparative approaches to marriage in the later Middle Ages / Charles Donahue, Jr.