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Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe : Collected Studies /

The family has become a subject of increasing scrutiny in recent years, giving special relevance to this work by the late Michael Sheehan. Collected here for the first time, Sheehan's papers contain the fruits of a forty-year-long career of archival research and interpretation of documents on p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sheehan, Michael M. (Michael McMahon), 1925-1992 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Farge, James K., 1938- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Report of a thesis on the will in Medieval England
  • A list of thirteenth-century English wills
  • The influence of canon law on the property rights of married women in England
  • Canon law and English institutions: some notes on current research
  • The formation and stability of marriage in fourteenth-century England: evidence of an Ely Register
  • Marriage and family in English conciliar and synodal legislation
  • Choice of marriage partner in the Middle Ages: development and mode of application of a theory of marriage
  • Marriage theory and practice in the conciliar legislation and diocesan statutes of Medieval England
  • The Wife of Bath and her four sisters: reflections on a woman's life in the Age of Chaucer
  • English wills and the records of the ecclesiastical and civil jurisdictions
  • Theory and practice: marriage of the unfree and the poor in Medieval society
  • The European family and canon law
  • Maritalis affectio revisited
  • The Bishop of Rome to a barbarian king on the rituals of marriage
  • Sexuality, marriage, celibacy, and the family in Central and Northern Italy: Christian legal and moral guides in the early Middle Ages
  • The bequest of land in England in the High Middle Ages: testaments and the law.