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UNINA9910463256603321 |
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McSheffrey Shannon |
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Marriage, sex and civic culture in late medieval London [[electronic resource] /] / Shannon McSheffrey |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006 |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Marriage - England - London - History - To 1500 |
Marriage law - England - London - History - To 1500 |
Sex and law - England - London - History - To 1500 |
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London (England) Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. LAW AND SOCIAL PRACTICE IN THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN LATE MEDIEVAL LONDON -- 1. Making a Marriage -- 2. Courtship and Gender -- 3. By the Father's Will and the Friends' Counsel -- 4. Gender, Power, and the Logistics of Marital Litigation -- 5. Place, Space, and Respectability -- PART II. GOVERNANCE, SEX, AND CIVIC MORALITY -- 6. Governance -- 7. Gender, Sex, and Reputation -- Conclusion: Sex, Marriage, and Medieval Concepts of the Public -- Appendix: Legal Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical AssociationHow were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, Shannon McSheffrey focuses her study on England's largest city in the second half of the fifteenth century.Marriage was a religious union-one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and imbued with deep spiritual significance-but the |
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marital unit of husband and wife was also the fundamental domestic, social, political, and economic unit of medieval society. As such, marriage created political alliances at all levels, from the arena of international politics to local neighborhoods. Sexual relationships outside marriage were even more complicated. McSheffrey notes that medieval Londoners saw them as variously attributable to female seduction or to male lustfulness, as irrelevant or deeply damaging to society and to the body politic, as economically productive or wasteful of resources. Yet, like marriage, sexual relationships were also subject to control and influence from parents, relatives, neighbors, civic officials, parish priests, and ecclesiastical judges.Although by medieval canon law a marriage was irrevocable from the moment a man and a woman exchanged vows of consent before two witnesses, in practice marriage was usually a socially complicated process involving many people. McSheffrey looks more broadly at sex, governance, and civic morality to show how medieval patriarchy extended a far wider reach than a father's governance over his biological offspring. By focusing on a particular time and place, she not only elucidates the culture of England's metropolitan center but also contributes generally to our understanding of the social mechanisms through which premodern European people negotiated their lives. |
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UNINA9910789998703321 |
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Haddad Youssef A. <1972-> |
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Control into conjunctive participle clauses : the case of Assamese / / Youssef A. Haddad |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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1-283-16576-7 |
9786613165763 |
3-11-218799-7 |
3-11-023825-X |
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1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 233 |
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Assamese language - Syntax |
Control (Linguistics) |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-224) and index. |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Assamese Adjunct Control: A descriptive overview -- Chapter 3 Forward/Backward Adjunct Control: The analysis -- Chapter 4 Copy Adjunct Control: The analysis -- Chapter 5 Adjunct Control violations as Expletive Control -- Chapter 6 Trigger: Why movement in control? -- Chapter 7 Summary and conclusion. -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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The book explores Adjunct Control in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India by about 15 million people. The author works within the Minimalist Program of syntactic theory. Adjunct Control is a relation of co-referentiality between two subjects, one in the matrix clause and one in the adjunct clause of the same structure. The relevant adjuncts in Assamese are non-finite clauses commonly known as Conjunctive Participle (CNP) clauses. Four types of Adjunct Control are examined: (i) Forward Control, in which only the matrix subject is pronounced; (ii) Backward Control, in which only the subordinate subject is pronounced; (iii) Copy Control, in which both subjects are pronounced; and (iv) Expletive Control, in which case the |
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two control elements are expletives. While Forward Control is a cross-linguistically common control pattern, Assamese also allows the other three less common structures. The author analyzes Adjunct Control as movement and provides a detailed account of the conditions that drive and constrain each of the four types of control. The theoretical implications are highlighted. The book is unique both empirically and theoretically. It is the first monograph which deals with Assamese generative syntax. It is also the first book to explore control structures in a single understudied language in such detail. In addition to Assamese, the book provides data from Telugu, Bengali, Konkani, Marathi, Tamil, and Hindi. |
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