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OverviewFrom the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy, Catalonia, and Castile, this study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P. Müller draws attention to the existence of public penitential proceedings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the difference in demand, as well as highlighting variations in how individuals obtained written documentation of their marital status. Integrating legal and theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals about both institutions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wolfgang P. Müller (Fordham University, New York)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.409kg ISBN: 9781108958189ISBN 10: 1108958184 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 02 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'An ambitious and successful demonstration of the markedly different ways the medieval canon law of marriage was put into practice. Based on a command of archival evidence, it makes an important contribution to European legal and social history.' R. H. Helmholz, University of Chicago Author InformationWolfgang P. Müller is Professor of History at Fordham University where he specializes in the church and other norms of the European Middle Ages. His publications include Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (1994) and The Criminalization of Abortion in the West (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |