To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400 1600 by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte Jr.

To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400 1600

Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte Jr.

536 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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This volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property settlements, prenuptial contracts, court testimony, church weddings, and more. The authors consider both the function of documentation in th...

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