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...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The journal of ecclesiastical history |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Diözese Évora
/ Ehe
/ Rechtsstreit
/ Bigamie
/ Geschichte 1369-1370
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| RelBib Classification: | KAF Kirchengeschichte 1300-1500; Spätmittelalter KBH Iberische Halbinsel KDB Katholische Kirche NCF Sexualethik XA Recht |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046915003346 |