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Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, Shannon McSheffrey focuses her study on England's largest city in the second half of the fifteenth century. Marriage was a religious union-one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and imbued with deep spiritual significance-but the marital unit of husband and wife was also the fundamental domestic, social, political, and economic unit of medieval society. As such, marriage created political alliances at all levels, from the arena of international politics to local neighborhoods. Sexual relationships outside marriage were even more complicated. McSheffrey notes that medieval Londoners saw them as variously attributable to female seduction or to male lustfulness, as irrelevant or deeply damaging to society and to the body politic, as economically productive or wasteful of resources. Yet, like marriage, sexual relationships were also subject to control and influence from parents, relatives, neighbors, civic officials, parish priests, and ecclesiastical judges. Although by medieval canon law a marriage was irrevocable from the moment a man and a woman exchanged vows of consent before two witnesses, in practice marriage was usually a socially complicated process involving many people. McSheffrey looks more broadly at sex, governance, and civic morality to show how medieval patriarchy extended a far wider reach than a father's governance over his biological offspring. By focusing on a particular time and place, she not only elucidates the culture of England's metropolitan center but also contributes generally to our understanding of the social mechanisms through which premodern European people negotiated their lives.

History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499 --- London --- Marriage --- -Marriage law --- -Sex and law --- -392.4/.5 "04/14" --- 392.6 "04/14" --- Law and sex --- Sex crimes --- Law, Marriage --- Domestic relations --- Sex and law --- Husband and wife --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- History --- -History --- -Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen --- Seksualiteit. Seksueel leven. Concubinaat. Samenwonen. Prostitutie. Erotiek. Seksuele gebruiken. Liefdeskunst--Middeleeuwen --- Law and legislation --- Prohibited degrees --- London (England) --- -Social life and customs --- Marriage law --- Social life and customs. --- 392.6 "04/14" Seksualiteit. Seksueel leven. Concubinaat. Samenwonen. Prostitutie. Erotiek. Seksuele gebruiken. Liefdeskunst--Middeleeuwen --- 392.4/.5 "04/14" Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen --- 392.4/.5 "04/14" --- Social life and customs --- England --- To 1500 --- Sex --- Gender Studies. --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Women's Studies.

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"Seeking Sanctuary' explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts ... Although for decades after 1400 sanctuary-seeking was indeed fairly rare, the evidence in the legal records shows the numbers of felons seeing refuge in churches began to climb again in the late fifteenth century and reached its peak in the period between 1525 and 1535"--Back cover.

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Uncovers the remarkable lives and writings of these tradesmen, showing how they adapted to their new environment and responded to the challenges they faced.

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485). --- Great Britain --- Church history