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Marriage, the church, and its judges in Renaissance Venice, 1420-1545

Uniform Title
Carità e l'eros. English.
Title
Marriage, the church, and its judges in Renaissance Venice, 1420-1545 / Cecilia Cristellon ; translated by Celeste Mcnamara.
ISBN
9783319387994
3319387995
9783319388007
Publication
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017.
Physical Description
xvii, 286 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes
Translated from the Italian.
Summary
"This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent. It offers a...representative overview of the changes the Council introduced to centuries-old marriage practices, relegating it to the realm of marginality and deviance and nearly erasing the memory of it altogether. From the eleventh century onward, the Church assured itself of a jurisdictional monopoly over the matter of marriage, operating both in concert and in conflict with secular authorities by virtue of marriage’s civil consequences, the first of which regarded the legitimacy of children. Secular tribunals were responsible for patrimonial matters between spouses, though the Church at times inserted itself into these matters either directly, by substituting itself for the secular authority, or indirectly, by influencing Rulings through their own sentences. Lay magistratures, for their part, somewhat eroded the authority of ecclesiastical tribunals by continuing to exercise autonomous jurisdiction over marriage, especially regarding separation and crimes strictly connected to the nuptial bond and its definition, including adultery, bigamy, and rape."-- Back cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2017
Series
Early modern history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The Matrimonial Tribunal and the procedure in marriage litigations
Witnesses and testimony
The office of the judge : mediation, inquisition, confession
"Maybe so" : marriage and consent in pre-Tridentine Venice
Venetian "matrimoniallia" : a quantitative analysis (1420-1500)
Conclusions.
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