RT Book
T1 Abduction, marriage, and consent in the late medieval low countries
T2 Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
JF Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
A1 Delameillieure, Chanelle 1992-
LA English
PP Amsterdam
PB Amsterdam University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1900971631
AB 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
AB Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introductory text -- bduction, marriage, and consent -- Abduction marriage for all -- Sources -- Structure -- Works cited -- 1. Perks and Perils of Being an Heiress -- Introductory text -- Reputation, property, and ages of consent -- From excommunication to decapitation -- Age and consent as legal parameters -- Increasing criminalization: Ghent (1191-1438) -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 2. Abduction's Who, How, and Why -- Introductory text -- The impossible marriage -- A gendered offense? -- A family affair -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 3. Consent In and Out of the Courtroom -- Introductory text -- Communicating consent and coercion -- Judging consent and coercion -- Explaining and understanding consent and coercion -- Life after abduction -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 4. What Authorities Did to Help -- Introductory note -- Secular authorities: between repression and reconciliation -- Two- and three-party cases before the consistory courts -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
CN 306.84
SN 9789048555550
K1 Abduction : Benelux countries : History : 15th century
K1 Marriage : Benelux countries : History : 15th century
K1 Sexual consent : Benelux countries : History : 15th century
K1 Women : Benelux countries : Social conditions : History : 15th century
K1 Women : Benelux countries : Social conditions : 15th century
K1 HISTORY / Medieval
K1 History of women, History of gender, History of sexuality, marriage, family, social history, history of law and justice
K1 Beneluxländer : Entführung : Hochzeit : Einverständnis : Mittelalter : Geschichte 1250-1500
DO 10.1515/9789048555550