WEEK TWELVE WORDS
MANORIAL
RECORDS
Judith Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside (1987)
BRIGSTOCK
MAYDE/WIF/WIDWE
MENARCHE
EUROPEAN MARRIAGE PATTERN
"DOMINA DOMUS" (Lady of the House)
WIDOW'S FREE BENCH
ELAINE CLARK
LANGLAND'S Piers Plowman
MERCHET FORMARIAGE
DROIT
DE SEIGNEUR IUS
PRIMAE NOCTIS
ELEANOR SEARLE
DIGNUM EST (Decretal 1154/9 that declared servi free to make valid marriages)
CULLAGE DROIT DE CUISSAGE (as
in Alain Boureau, The
Lord's First Night)
M.A. McLaurin, Celia: A Slave
(1991)
Ann Baer, Down the Common (1996
novel about a woman's year in a late medieval English village)
1.
Sources for Peasant Marriage etc.
2. Judith Bennett on Brigstock, Northants, life cycle incl. widowhood.
3. Elaine Clark on making of marriages
4. Merchet
5. Droit de seigneur as an instrumental myth
CHEYETTE
MARIA OF
MONTPELLIER
PHILIP (II) AUGUSTUS
CAPETIAN KING OF FRANCE
ISABELLE OF HAINAULT INGEBORG OF
DENMARK AGNES OF MERAN
INTERDICT
POPE INNOCENT III
"DE MISERIA MUNDI"
DECRETALS: "CRUSADER'S WIFE", and PER VENERABILEM
LANGUEDOC
(Physical
map of the "hexagon" of France) PAYS DE DROIT ÉCRIT
TROUBADORS
ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE
JOHN T. NOONAN jr., Power to
Dissolve
1. Marriage
policy at the highest social level: the example of Philip II Augustus
of France
2. Some introductory points to help us read the Maria of Montpellier
file.
Friday Discussion
Documents:
"Texts on the Marriages of Maria
of Montpellier" (.pdf)
You might also look at Murray, nos. 51 (a
kind of "droit de seigneur" text), 56 (1st
entry from 1247).