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Author:   Silvana Seidel Menchi
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.790kg
ISBN:  

9781442637504

ISBN 10:   1442637501
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   04 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Silvana Seidel Menchi Introduction Silvana Seidel Menchi Section I: Continuity and Change 1. The Legal Background: European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century  Charles Donahue Jr. (Harvard Law School) 2. Marriage in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Moral, Legal and Political Order  Heide Wunder (University of Kassel) 3. Marriage in Italy  Daniela Lombardi (University of Pisa) 4. The Legal Regulation of Marriage in England: From the Fifteenth Century to the 1640s  Richard H. Helmholz (University of Chicago Law School) Section II: Licit and Illicit 5. Marriage Formation: Law and Custom in the Low Countries 1500-1700  Manon van der Heijden (University of Leiden) 6. Competing Logics of Public Order: Matrimony and the Fight against Illicit Sexuality in Germany and Switzerland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century  Susanna Burghartz (University of Basel) 7. Marriage and Love in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spain  Jesús M. Usunáriz (University of Navarra) 8. Marriage in Sweden 1400–1700: Formalism, Collectivism and Control  Mia Korpiola (University of Helsinski) Section III: Uniformity and Singularity 9. Marriage in France from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Political and Juridical Aspects  Anne Lefebvre-Teillard (University of Paris Law School) 10. Mixed Marriages in Early Modern Europe  Cecilia Cristellon (University of Frankfurt) 11. Conjugal Experiments in Europe 1400–1800 Silvana Seidel Menchi (University of Pisa) Conclusion Silvana Seidel Menchi Bibliography and Abbreviations Subject Index Index of Historical Names

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Marriage in Europe is an excellent collection of articles on marriage in early modern Europe. The chapters are consistently of high quality and provide a superb synthesis that should be of interest to a wide range of readers. -- Jeffrey Watt, Department of History, University of Mississippi

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Silvana Seidel Menchi is a professor emerita in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Pisa.

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