Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages : Arguments About Marriage in Five Courts (Hardcover)

1. The background rules and institutions; 2. Lying witnesses and social reality: four English marriage cases in the high middle ages; 3. Statistics ? the court of York, 1300?1500; 4. Story patterns in the court of York in the fourteenth century; 5. Story patterns in the court of York in the fifteenth century; 6. Ely; 7. Paris; 8. Cambrai ? the courts and the numbers; 9. Cambrai and Brussels ? the content of the sentences; 10. Divorce a mensa et thoro and salvo iure thori (separation); 11. Social practice, formal rule, and the medieval canon law of incest; 12. Broader comparisons: English and Franco-Belgian marriage cases in the later middle ages and a glimpse at the rest of western Europe; Epilogue and conclusion.