Looking beyond their dowries
«Perhaps we should look elsewhere, beyond dowries», this comment made by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber in her The Griselda Complex almost forty years ago encapsulates the scope of the studies collected here. «Yet historians» the scholar went on, «once they had concluded that the dowry played a predomin...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/mefrm, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Moyen Âge
2018
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | «Perhaps we should look elsewhere, beyond dowries», this comment made by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber in her The Griselda Complex almost forty years ago encapsulates the scope of the studies collected here. «Yet historians» the scholar went on, «once they had concluded that the dowry played a predominant part in marriage law, lost interest in the assignments based on custom, which are mentioned in a great many documents, although in less than clear terms».Scholars have all too much used dowries... |
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