Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries

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...

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Main Author: Delameillieure, Chanelle
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2024
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description 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. Abduction, Marriage, and Consent draws from a wide range of legal records to assess how men, women, families, and authorities used, navigated, and dealt with abductions during this period. It contributes to debates on consent, family involvement, and women’s access to justice and demonstrates that abduction should be approached as a comprehensive social phenomenon, one that is crucial in the history of marriage and women’s social and legal status.
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Delameillieure, Chanelle
Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
title Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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title_short Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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