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Nouvelle acquisition : Abduction, marriage, and consent in the late medieval low countries

DELAMEILLIEURE Chanelle
Abduction, marriage, and consent in the late medieval low countries
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024, 253 p.
Collection Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 24
ISBN 978-94-6372-407-4

N 2829

Résumé éditeur :

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. (4e de couv.)


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Corinne HÉLIN (23 octobre 2024). Nouvelle acquisition : Abduction, marriage, and consent in the late medieval low countries. IRHiS-Bibliothèque. Consulté le 9 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12jyb


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