Add to ORKGIn this article, I explore the processes whereby, at the turn of the twelfth century, European aristocrats acknowledged clerics'prohibitions of divorce and close-kin marriages. I argue that this normative shift cannot be ad-equately accounted for by the rise of feudalism, the Gregorian reformers' moralist offensive or the development of canon law: These events do not ex-plain (I) why the Roman hierarchy thought it possible, at a certain moment in time, to impose their normative preferences on reluctant elites; or (2) why aristocrats eventually yielded to demands that undermined their autonomy of choice regarding marriage. I address both problems by-considering two analytically distinct transformative processes. One concerns the sy...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2010.The interaction between clerics and...
This article analyses specific characteristics of pre-modern rule in medieval central Europe. It bec...
This Article analyzes four early modern Protestant models of marriage that emerged in place of the m...
This thesis examines the collision and the commingling of the belief systems espoused by the Gregori...
To those who promoted the agendas of the eleventh and twelfth century church reforms the cleric’s wi...
A causa de que el Derecho canónico ha sido entendido a menudo como una colección homogénea de normas...
The article analyses how the decrees of the Council of Trent regarding marriage were used by the Chu...
The essay deals with religious influences on marriages and families at the time of Protestant and Ca...
To those who promoted the agendas of the eleventh and twelfth century church reforms the cleric\u27s...
This article suggests that Italian bishops often had recourse to spiritual penalties to exercise the...
The classical statements of the medieval canon law, Gratian’s Decretum (ca. 1140) and the Gregorian...
Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one...
In Byzantium, conceptions and practices of marriage were not fixed, and the principles of how to ent...
Spousal equality was not an ideal to which medieval societies generally aspired. Discussions about s...
This paper analyses how the civil and ecclesiastical hierarchies shared their responsibilities over ...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2010.The interaction between clerics and...
This article analyses specific characteristics of pre-modern rule in medieval central Europe. It bec...
This Article analyzes four early modern Protestant models of marriage that emerged in place of the m...
This thesis examines the collision and the commingling of the belief systems espoused by the Gregori...
To those who promoted the agendas of the eleventh and twelfth century church reforms the cleric’s wi...
A causa de que el Derecho canónico ha sido entendido a menudo como una colección homogénea de normas...
The article analyses how the decrees of the Council of Trent regarding marriage were used by the Chu...
The essay deals with religious influences on marriages and families at the time of Protestant and Ca...
To those who promoted the agendas of the eleventh and twelfth century church reforms the cleric\u27s...
This article suggests that Italian bishops often had recourse to spiritual penalties to exercise the...
The classical statements of the medieval canon law, Gratian’s Decretum (ca. 1140) and the Gregorian...
Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one...
In Byzantium, conceptions and practices of marriage were not fixed, and the principles of how to ent...
Spousal equality was not an ideal to which medieval societies generally aspired. Discussions about s...
This paper analyses how the civil and ecclesiastical hierarchies shared their responsibilities over ...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2010.The interaction between clerics and...
This article analyses specific characteristics of pre-modern rule in medieval central Europe. It bec...
This Article analyzes four early modern Protestant models of marriage that emerged in place of the m...