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Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries

Anglais · Livre de poche

Paraît le 01.12.2025

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The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social process that evoked public concern and familial scrutiny. Abductions embodied contrasting evaluations of what mattered when selecting a spouse and resulted in polarized trials in which narratives on consent, coercion, and family strategy coincided and competed. Abduction, Marriage, and Consent draws from a wide range of legal records to assess how men, women, families, and authorities used, navigated, and dealt with abductions during this period. It contributes to debates on consent, family involvement, and women's access to justice and demonstrates that abduction should be approached as a comprehensive social phenomenon, one that is crucial in the history of marriage and women's social and legal status.


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Introduction, I. Perks and Perils of Being an Heiress, II. Abduction's Who, How, and Why? III. Consent in and out of the Courtroom, IV. What Authorities Did to Help, Conclusion

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Chanelle Delameillieure researches late medieval gender and family history with a focus on marriage, sexuality and the social history of the law. She is a tenure track professor of medieval history at KU Leuven.

Détails du produit

Auteurs Chanelle Delameillieure
Edition Taylor and Francis
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 01.12.2025
 
EAN 9781041175193
ISBN 978-1-041-17519-3
Pages 254
Thème Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Catégories Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres
Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire culturelle

HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval

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