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Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts, including 'Beowulf', the works of Chaucer, Langland's 'Piers Plowman', the 'Book of Margery Kempe' and the 'Paston Letters'. Focusing on a number of key themes important across the period, individual chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love, sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Marriage customs and rites, Medieval --- Marriage in literature --- Marriage law --- Marriage --- 347.62 <420> --- 392.4/.5 --- 392.4/.5 Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Law, Marriage --- Domestic relations --- Sex and law --- Husband and wife --- 347.62 <420> Huwelijksrecht. Huwelijksvoorwaarden. Huwelijksformaliteiten. Nietigheid, aanvechtbaarheid van het huwelijk. Rechten en plichten van echtgenoten--Engeland --- Huwelijksrecht. Huwelijksvoorwaarden. Huwelijksformaliteiten. Nietigheid, aanvechtbaarheid van het huwelijk. Rechten en plichten van echtgenoten--Engeland --- Medieval marriage customs and rites --- History --- Law and legislation --- Prohibited degrees --- Great Britain --- Marriage in literature. --- Consent. --- Divorce. --- Legal and literary texts. --- Love. --- Medieval marriage. --- Property.

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History of the law --- Scandinavian languages --- Dialectology --- Europe: North --- Concubinage --- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval --- Marriage --- History --- Sources. --- Sources --- Scandinavia --- Marriage customs and rites [Medieval ] --- Medieval marriage customs and rites --- Common law marriage --- Free love --- Marriage law --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Law and legislation

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Joan Plantagenet (1328 - 1385), acclaimed in her youth as the "Fair Maid of Kent", became notorious for making both a clandestine and a bigamous marriage in her teens and, in her thirties, a scandalous marriage to her kinsman, Edward III's son and heir, Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince. Despite these transgressions, she later became one of the most influential people in the realm and a highlyrespected source of stability. Her life provides a distinctive perspective of a noblewoman at the heart of affairs in fourteenth-century England, a period when the Crown, despite enjoying some striking triumphs, also faced a series of political and social crises which shook conventional expectations. Furthermore, her life adds depth to our understanding of a time when marriage began to be regarded not just as a dynastic arrangement but a contract freely entered into by a couple.
This accessibly written account of her life sets her in the full context of her world, and vividly portrays aspirited medieval woman who was determined to be mistress of her fate and to make a mark in challenging times.

Princesses --- Royalty --- Courts and courtiers --- Joan, --- Fair Maid of Kent, --- Salisbury, Joan, --- Kent, Joan, --- Plantagenet, Joan, --- Great Britain --- History --- Biography. --- Black Prince. --- Edward of Woodstock. --- Feminism. --- Fourteenth-century England. --- Gender history. --- Gender politics. --- Joan Plantagenet. --- Kent. --- Medieval female. --- Medieval marriage. --- Medieval royalty. --- Medieval. --- Middle Age. --- Richard II. --- Women's studies.

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An extraordinary court with late medieval roots in the activities of the king’s council, Star Chamber came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before being abolished in 1641 by members of parliament for what they deemed egregious abuses of royal power. Before its demise, the court heard a wide range of disputes in cases framed as fraud, libel, riot, and more. In so doing, it produced records of a sort that make its archive invaluable to many researchers today for insights into both the ordinary and extraordinary. The chapters gathered here explore what we can learn about the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came of age in an era of social, legal, religious, and political transformation, and one that left an exceptional wealth of documentation that will repay further study.

Legal history --- Tudor Britain --- legal history --- courts --- medieval marriage --- medieval women --- rape --- consent --- medieval libel --- Sir Edward Coke --- medieval judge --- Jacobean law --- popular legalism --- marine insurance --- fraud --- London history --- Westminster --- England. --- England and Wales. --- Great Britain --- History --- Court of Star Chamber (England) --- Great Britain.

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Marriage --- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval --- History --- France --- Social life and customs --- 241.64*4 --- -Marriage customs and rites, Medieval --- Medieval marriage customs and rites --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Theologische ethiek: partnerkeuze en huwelijk --- Social life and customs. --- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval. --- History. --- 241.64*4 Theologische ethiek: partnerkeuze en huwelijk --- Marriage - France - History --- France - Social life and customs