Two Weddings and a Lawsuit: Marriage Litigation in Fourteenth-Century Portugal

Based on one of the few surviving records of marriage cases brought before ecclesiastical courts in fourteenth-century Portugal, this article offers a rare glimpse of marriage practice in a small village in a remote corner of Western Europe and the complex ties that bound its inhabitants and which s...

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Published in:The journal of ecclesiastical history
Main Author: Vitória, André ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2016]
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Diözese Évora / Marriage / Legal conflict / Bigamy / History 1369-1370
RelBib Classification:KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages
KBH Iberian Peninsula
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NCF Sexual ethics
XA Law
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Summary:Based on one of the few surviving records of marriage cases brought before ecclesiastical courts in fourteenth-century Portugal, this article offers a rare glimpse of marriage practice in a small village in a remote corner of Western Europe and the complex ties that bound its inhabitants and which secular and ecclesiastical authorities sought to regulate. Clear parallels can be drawn with the patterns of marriage litigation observed in England and Northern France, but evidence also suggests that royal legislation played an important part in the resolution of marital disputes and in the shaping of conjugal behaviour.
ISSN:1469-7637
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022046915003346