Did the Medieval Laity Know the Canon Law Rules on Marriage? Some Evidence from Fourteenth-Century York
- Author / Editor
- Pedersen, Frederik.
Did the Medieval Laity Know the Canon Law Rules on Marriage? Some Evidence from Fourteenth-Century York
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Canada) 56 (1994): 111-52.
- Description
- Witnesses' statements and other court documents concerning marriage litigation in the Northern Province (including the dioceses of York, Lincoln, Chester, and others) indicate that many lay people would have known the stipulations of canon law well enough to recognize that the exchange of vows and sexual union of Troilus and Criseyde constitute a valid marriage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.