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Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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Chanelle Delameillieure
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2024
Author / Editor information
Delameillieure Chanelle :
Chanelle Delameillieure researches late medieval gender and family history with a focus on marriage, sexuality and the social history of the law. She is a tenure track professor of medieval history at KU Leuven.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
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Acknowledgments
9 - Introduction
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Introductory text
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Abduction, marriage, and consent
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Abduction marriage for all
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Sources
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Structure
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34 - 1. Perks and Perils of Being an Heiress
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Introductory text
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Reputation, property, and ages of consent
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From excommunication to decapitation
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Age and consent as legal parameters
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Increasing criminalization: Ghent (1191–1438)
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Conclusion
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76 - 2. Abduction’s Who, How, and Why
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Introductory text
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The impossible marriage
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A gendered offense?
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A family affair
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Conclusion
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115 - 3. Consent In and Out of the Courtroom
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Introductory text
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Communicating consent and coercion
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Judging consent and coercion
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Explaining and understanding consent and coercion
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Life after abduction
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Conclusion
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158 - 4. What Authorities Did to Help
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Introductory note
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Secular authorities: between repression and reconciliation
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Two- and three-party cases before the consistory courts
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Conclusion
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Works cited
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Conclusion
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Abbreviations
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 12, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789048555550
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
254
Illustrations:
9
eBook ISBN:
9789048555550
Keywords for this book
History of women; History of gender; History of sexuality; marriage; family; social history; history of law and justice
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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