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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Hlavní autor: Delameillieure, Chanelle
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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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1685512025-10-24T05:19:00Z Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries Delameillieure, Chanelle history of women history of gender history of sexuality marriage family social history history of law and justice thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history 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. 2025-10-24T05:18:59Z 2025-10-24T05:18:59Z 2025-10-23T08:32:32Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T102741_9781040785164_31 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107834 9781040785164 9781003690344 9781041175193 9781040791141 9789463724074 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168551 eng Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107834/1/9781040785164.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003690344 10.4324/9781003690344 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040785164 9781003690344 9781041175193 9781040791141 9789463724074 Routledge 254 Oxford open access
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history of gender
history of sexuality
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social history
history of law and justice
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