Marriage Disputes in Medieval England

Download or read book Marriage Disputes in Medieval England written by Frederik Pedersen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate details about the personal lives of medieval people are frustratingly rare. We seldom know what the men and women of the middle ages thought about marriage, let alone about sex. The records of the church courts of the province of York, mainly dating from the fourteenth century, provides a welcome light on private, family life and on individual reactions to it. They include a wide range of fascinating cases involving disputes about the validity of marriage, consent, sex, marital violence, impotence and property disputes. They also show how widely the laws of marriage were both known and accepted. Marriage Disputes in Medieval England offers a remarkable insight into personal life in the middle ages.