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dc.contributor.authorDelameillieure, Chanelle
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T08:05:31Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T08:05:31Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90588
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern Worlden_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issuesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMU Psychology: sexual behaviouren_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle agesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory of women, History of gender, History of sexuality, marriage, family, social history, history of law and justiceen_US
dc.titleAbduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countriesen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463724074en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857aen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789463724074en_US
oapen.series.number24en_US
oapen.pages256en_US
oapen.place.publicationAmsterdamen_US


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