Abduction, marriage, and consent in the late medieval low countries

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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...

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Main Author: Delameillieure, Chanelle 1992- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2024]
In: Gendering the late medieval and early modern world (24)
Year: 2024
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Keywords:
Abduction > Benelux countries > History > 15th century
Marriage > Benelux countries > History > 15th century
Sexual consent > Benelux countries > History > 15th century
Women > Benelux countries > Social conditions > History > 15th century
Women > Benelux countries > Social conditions > 15th century
HISTORY / Medieval
History of women, History of gender, History of sexuality, marriage, family, social history, history of law and justice
Beneluxländer > Entführung > Hochzeit > Einverständnis > Mittelalter > Geschichte 1250-1500
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic