Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe : : Collected Studies / / Michael M. Sheehan; ed. by James Farge.

The family has become a subject of increasing scrutiny in recent years, giving special relevance to this work by the late Michael Sheehan. Collected here for the first time, Sheehan's papers contain the fruits of a forty-year-long career of archival research and interpretation of documents on p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Report of a Thesis on the Will in Medieval England
  • 2. A List of Thirteenth-Century English Wills
  • 3. The Influence of Canon Law on the Property Rights of Married Women in England
  • 4. Canon Law and English Institutions: Some Notes on Current Research
  • 5. The Formation and Stability of Marriage in Fourteenth-Century England: Evidence of an Ely Register
  • 6. Marriage and Family in English Conciliar and Synodal Legislation
  • 7. Choice of Marriage Partner in the Middle Ages: Development and Mode of Application of a Theory of Marriage
  • 8. Marriage Theory and Practice in the Conciliar Legislation and Diocesan Statutes of Medieval England
  • 9. The Wife of Bath and Her Four Sisters: Reflections on a Woman's Life in the Age of Chaucer
  • 10. English Wills and the Records of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions
  • 11. Theory and Practice: Marriage of the Unfree and the Poor in Medieval Society
  • 12. The European Family and Canon Law
  • 13. Maritalis affectio Revisited
  • 14. The Bishop of Rome to a Barbarian King on the Rituals of Marriage
  • 15. Sexuality, Marriage, Celibacy, and the Family in Central and Northern Italy: Christian Legal and Moral Guides in the Early Middle Ages
  • 16. The Bequest of Land in England in the High Middle Ages: Testaments and the Law
  • Bibliography of Michael M. Sheehan, CSB