LEADER 04749nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910788252503321 005 20211013214654.0 010 $a1-283-89877-2 010 $a0-8122-0654-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206548 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046092 035 $a(OCoLC)822017940 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000582004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11370818 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10540316 035 $a(PQKB)11608878 035 $a(OCoLC)794700786 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17534 035 $a(DE-B1597)449529 035 $a(OCoLC)979904890 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206548 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441780 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642115 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421127 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441780 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046092 100 $a20111026d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBigamy and Christian identity in late medieval Champagne$b[electronic resource] /$fSara McDougall 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4398-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-209) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Marriage and Remarriage in the Later Middle Ages --$tChapter 2. Bigamous Husbands --$tChapter 3. Abandoned Wives --$tChapter 4. Why Commit Bigamy? --$tChapter 5. Why Prosecute Bigamy? --$tConclusion: Christian Identity at the End of the Middle Ages --$tAppendix: Selected Transcriptions from a Register of the Officiality of Troyes --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe institution of marriage is commonly thought to have fallen into crisis in late medieval northern France. While prior scholarship has identified the pervasiveness of clandestine marriage as the cause, Sara McDougall contends that the pressure came overwhelmingly from the prevalence of remarriage in violation of the Christian ban on divorce, a practice we might call "bigamy." Throughout the fifteenth century in Christian Europe, husbands and wives married to absent or distant spouses found new spouses to wed. In the church courts of northern France, many of the individuals so married were criminally prosecuted.In Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne, McDougall traces the history of this conflict in the diocese of Troyes and places it in the larger context of Christian theology and culture. Multiple marriage was both inevitable and repugnant in a Christian world that forbade divorce and associated bigamy with the unchristian practices of Islam or Judaism. The prevalence of bigamy might seem to suggest a failure of Christianization in late medieval northern France, but careful study of the sources shows otherwise: Clergy and laity alike valued marriage highly. Indeed, some members of the laity placed such a high value on the institution that they were willing to risk criminal punishment by entering into illegal remarriage. The risk was great: the Bishop of Troyes's judicial court prosecuted bigamy with unprecedented severity, although this prosecution broke down along gender lines. The court treated male bigamy, and only male bigamy, as a grave crime, while female bigamy was almost completely excluded from harsh punishment. As this suggests, the Church was primarily concerned with imposing a high standard on men as heads of Christian households, responsible for their own behavior and also that of their wives. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aBigamy$zFrance$zChampagne-Ardenne$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aBigamy (Canon law)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMarriage$zFrance$zChampagne-Ardenne$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMarriage (Canon law)$xHistory$yTo 1500 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aBigamy$xHistory 615 0$aBigamy (Canon law)$xHistory 615 0$aMarriage$xHistory 615 0$aMarriage (Canon law)$xHistory 676 $a306.84/1094431 700 $aMcDougall$b Sara$01101606 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788252503321 996 $aBigamy and Christian identity in late medieval Champagne$93855142 997 $aUNINA