To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600

by John Witte Jr.

This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage and how people in the day understood it. Drawing on archival evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521867363
• ISBN13: 9780521867368
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"