LEADER 04939nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910787527303321 005 20220304205645.0 010 $a0-8122-0397-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203974 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418278 035 $a(OCoLC)859161008 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748578 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053302 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11669353 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053302 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11115271 035 $a(PQKB)10139805 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29225 035 $a(DE-B1597)449735 035 $a(OCoLC)979684607 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203974 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442152 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748578 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442152 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418278 100 $a20051219d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMarriage, sex and civic culture in late medieval London$b[electronic resource] /$fShannon McSheffrey 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51263-9 311 0 $a0-8122-3938-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPART I. LAW AND SOCIAL PRACTICE IN THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN LATE MEDIEVAL LONDON --$t1. Making a Marriage --$t2. Courtship and Gender --$t3. By the Father's Will and the Friends' Counsel --$t4. Gender, Power, and the Logistics of Marital Litigation --$t5. Place, Space, and Respectability --$tPART II. GOVERNANCE, SEX, AND CIVIC MORALITY --$t6. Governance --$t7. Gender, Sex, and Reputation --$tConclusion: Sex, Marriage, and Medieval Concepts of the Public --$tAppendix: Legal Sources --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAwarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How 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 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. 606 $aMarriage$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMarriage law$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSex and law$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aMarriage$xHistory 615 0$aMarriage law$xHistory 615 0$aSex and law$xHistory 676 $a306.8109421/20902 700 $aMcSheffrey$b Shannon$01183896 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787527303321 996 $aMarriage, sex and civic culture in late medieval London$93697160 997 $aUNINA