Priestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church
Priestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church By Michelle Armstrong-Partida Viator, Vol.40:2 (2009) Abstract: The image of priests as…
Marriage across frontiers: sexual mixing, power and identity in medieval Iberia
Marriage across frontiers: sexual mixing, power and identity in medieval Iberia Barton, Simon Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011)…
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants Kennedy, Beverly The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers Vol.2, edited by Norman Blake…
Marriage and Mutilation: Vendetta in Late-Medieval Italy
‘All of the family take up offensive weapons, for the injury done to one stains the whole house’, wrote one fourteenth-century lawyer. Vendetta was an obligation on kinsmen. That obligation did not die with an injured party: often quoted is Dante’s experience in Hell, when an ancestor angrily fled from his presence because his death had not yet been avenged.
Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: A Look at the English and Franco-Belgian Regions
Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: A Look at the English and Franco-Belgian Regions By Charles Donahue, Jr. Proceedings of…
FROM FOOTNOTES TO NARRATIVE: WELSH NOBLEWOMEN IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
FROM FOOTNOTES TO NARRATIVE: WELSH NOBLEWOMEN IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY Richards, Gwenyth PhD Thesis, University of Sydney (2005) Abstract This thesis concentrates on the role…
The Marriage of Bolesław of the Piasts and Kinga of the Árpáds in 1239 in the Shadow of the Mongol Menace
The Marriage of Bolesław of the Piasts and Kinga of the Árpáds in 1239 in the Shadow of the Mongol Menace By Wojciech…
KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 92 – Thursday, May 12, 2011: In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages
In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo Organizer: Rachel D. Gibson (University of Minnesota–Twin…
THE BORGIAS: “The French King” – SE01EP06
“The French King” Cesare falls deeply in love with Baroness Ursula, Lucrezia has a torrid affair with Paolo the stable boy, while her…
The Tie that Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England
Medieval marriage was both a private matter and a public institution. Although it technically required only the couple’s consent, it usually involved the assistance of parents, the participation of neighbors, and the approval of administrators.
Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France
Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France By Lindsay Mark Diggelmann PhD Dissertation, University of Auckland, 2004 Abstract:…
Changing Gender Relation in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland: The Role of Canon Law According to Court Case Narratives
In this paper I shall not primarily discuss this legal regulations rather give some ideas of how the law was used (and shaped on a textual level) at the local courts. Examples will be taken from several court case narrations.
How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction
How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction By Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth Published Online (2010) Abstract: Europeans restricted their fertility long before other…
The Clerical Wife: Medieval Perceptions of Women During the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Church Reforms
The Clerical Wife: Medieval Perceptions of Women During the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Church Reforms By Cara Kaser PSU McNair Online Journal, Vol.1 (2004-5)…
An English Royal Wedding – from the Middle Ages
A recent article has detailed the wedding of an English princess in the fourteenth century, showing how lavish the Middle Ages could be.…
A Remarrying Widow: Law and Legal Records in Late Medieval London
A Remarrying Widow: Law and Legal Records in Late Medieval London By Shannon McSheffrey Worth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and…
Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato
Various studies in recent years have illuminated the almost pandemic nature of clandestine marriage in late-medieval Europe – the Church considered it to be a pernicious social problem,