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9780813220178 Academic Inspection Copy

Marriage on Trial

Late Medieval German Couples at the Papal Court
  • ISBN-13: 9780813220178
  • Publisher: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERISTY OF AMERICA PRESS
    Imprint: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
  • By Ludwig Schmugge
  • Price: AUD $157.00
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  • Local release date: 30/03/2013
  • Format: Hardback (220.00mm X 149.00mm) 384 pages Weight: 680g
  • Categories: Medieval history [HBLC1]
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In the first detailed study of papal penitentiary materials on marriage, renowned medieval historian Ludwig Schmugge tells the exciting stories of seduced maidens, too-closely-related husbands and wives, and thousands of couples who faced lawsuits-all of whom had transgressed marriage law on various grounds in the Middle Ages. This work vividly describes many of the individual cases and offers new insight into the social and legal pressures on marriage in the Middle Ages. At a time when betrothal, marriage, and sexual morals were strictly subject to the church's law, petitions from couples abounded. More than two hundred clerics of the penitentiary in the papal curia devoted their time and attention to these petitions alone. With exceptional thoroughness, Schmugge sifted through the thick volumes of registers in the Vatican Secret Archives for his research. Here he presents the exciting, almost unbelievable, and often scandalous fates of these late medieval men and women, while highlighting the important connection between the papal monarchy and the social history of the laity in the later Middle Ages.
LUDWIG SCHMUGGE, the leading expert on the papal penitentiary and a professor of medieval history, is president of the scientific committee of the German Historical Institute in Rome. ATRIA A. LARSON received her Ph.D. in medieval studies from the Catholic University of America in 2010 and spent the 2009-2010 academic year on a Fulbright grant in Munich, Germany.
"The scholarship and labor it reflects can only evoke admiration and thanks for drawing such material out of the shadows."--R.N. Swanson, The Sixteenth Century Journal "Schmugge's admirably thorough discussions of procedure, legal context, and archival anatomy will be invaluable to any researcher embarking for the first time on a study of medieval marriage essential reading for students interested in the subject as well as a valuable addition to the collections of more advanced scholars."--Marie A. Kelleher, CA State Univ, Long Beach, The Historian
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