Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Note vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. SECTION I. Continuity and Change
7. Chapter 1. The Legal Background: European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 33
8. Chapter 2. Marriage in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Moral, Legal, and Political Order 61
9. Chapter 3. Marriage in Italy 94
10. Chapter 4. The Legal Regulation of Marriage in England: From the Fifteenth Century to the 1640s 122
11. SECTION II. Licit and Illicit
12. Chapter 5. Marriage Formation: Law and Custom in the Low Countries 1500–1700 155
13. Chapter 6. Competing Logics of Public Order: Matrimony and the Fight against Illicit Sexuality in Germany and Switzerland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 176
14. Chapter 7. Marriage and Love in Sixteenthand Seventeenth-Century Spain 201
15. Chapter 8 Marriage in Sweden 1400–1700: Formalism, Collectivism, and Control 225
16. SECTION III. Uniformity and Singularity
17. Chapter 9. Marriage in France from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Political and Juridical Aspects 261
18. Chapter 10. Mixed Marriages in Early Modern Europe 294
19. Chapter 11. Conjugal Experiments in Europe 1400–1800 318
20. Conclusion 333
21. Bibliography and Abbreviations 347
22. Index 395