To have and to hold : marrying and its documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 / edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte, Jr.

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Marriage -- History.

Marriage -- History -- Sources.

Marital property -- History.

Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.

Marriage law -- History.

1. Marrying and its documentation in pre-modern Europe: consent, celebration, and property / Philip L. Reynolds

2. Marrying and its documentation in later Roman law / Judith Evans-Grubbs

3. Marrying and the Tabulae Nuptiales in Roman North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine / David G. Hunter

4. Dotal charters in the Frankish tradtion / Philip L. Reynolds

5. Marriage and diplomatics: five dower charters from the regions of Laon and Soissons, 1163-1181 / Laurent Morelle

6. Marriage agreements from twelfth-century Southern France / Cynthia Johnson

7. Marriage contracts in medieval England / R. H. Helmholz

8. Marriage contracts and the church courts of fourteenth-century England / Frederik Pedersen

9. Marrying and marriage litigation in medieval Ireland / Art Cosgrove

10. Marriage contracts in medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnósdóttir

11. Contracting marriage in Renaissance Florence / Thomas Kuehn

12. Marital property law as socio-cultural text: the case of Late-Medieval Douai / Martha C. Howell

13. Marriage contracts, liturgies, and properties / John Witte, Jr.

This volume analyses how, why and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. Drawing on archival evidence from classical Rome, medieval France, England, Iceland and Ireland, and Renaissance Florence, Douai and Geneva, the volume provides an interdisciplinary analysis of marital customs, laws and practices in Western Christendom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521867368

xv, 519 p. ; 24 cm