Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Número de páginas: 258 págs. 15.6 x 23.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 22-04-2024
EAN: 9789463724074
ISBN: 978-94-6372-407-4
Precio (sin IVA): 151,10 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 157,14 €
The 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.