# Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : abduction, marriage, and consent in the late medieval low countries, présentation de l’éditeur the middle dutch term  schaec  referred to abduction ...

## Parution

- **ISBN** : 978-9-463-72407-4
- **Éditeur** : Amsterdam University Press

## Résumé

Présentation de l’éditeur
The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social process that evoked public concern and familial scrutiny. Abductions embodied contrasting evaluations of what mattered when selecting a spouse and resulted in polarized trials in which narratives on consent, coercion, and family strategy coincided and competed. Abduction, Marriage, and Consent draws from a wide range of legal records to assess how men, women, families, and authorities used, navigated, and dealt with abductions during this period. It contributes to debates on consent, family involvement, and women’s access to justice and demonstrates that abduction should be approached as a comprehensive social phenomenon, one that is crucial in the history of marriage and women’s social and legal status.
 
Sommaire
IntroductionI. Perks and Perils of Being an HeiressII. Abduction’s Who, How, and Why?III. Consent in and out of the CourtroomIV. What Authorities Did to HelpConclusion


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2024-06-05

## Tags

Consentement, Droit des personnes et de la famille, Droit privé, Famille, Histoire du droit, Histoire du droit, Histoire sociale

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