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Book SynopsisMarriage in Europe, 14001800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.
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Table of ContentsPreface Silvana Seidel Menchi Introduction Silvana Seidel Menchi Section I: Continuity and Change 1. The Legal Background: European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Charles Donahue Jr. (Harvard Law School) 2. Marriage in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Moral, Legal and Political Order Heide Wunder (University of Kassel) 3. Marriage in Italy Daniela Lombardi (University of Pisa) 4. The Legal Regulation of Marriage in England: From the Fifteenth Century to the 1640s Richard H. Helmholz (University of Chicago Law School) Section II: Licit and Illicit 5. Marriage Formation: Law and Custom in the Low Countries 1500-1700 Manon van der Heijden (University of Leiden) 6. Competing Logics of Public Order: Matrimony and the Fight against Illicit Sexuality in Germany and Switzerland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Susanna Burghartz (University of Basel) 7. Marriage and Love in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spain Jesus M. Usunariz (University of Navarra) 8. Marriage in Sweden 1400-1700: Formalism, Collectivism and Control Mia Korpiola (University of Helsinski) Section III: Uniformity and Singularity 9. Marriage in France from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Political and Juridical Aspects Anne Lefebvre-Teillard (University of Paris Law School) 10. Mixed Marriages in Early Modern Europe Cecilia Cristellon (University of Frankfurt) 11. Conjugal Experiments in Europe 1400-1800 Silvana Seidel Menchi (University of Pisa) Conclusion Silvana Seidel Menchi Bibliography and Abbreviations Subject Index Index of Historical Names
