WEEK VII WORDS
GEORGES DUBY
DAVID HERLIHY
PIRENNE THESIS MARE NOSTRUM
SALVIAN (400+)
POPE "HADRIAN VII"
MORTMAIN (the "dead hand" of the Church)
INCEST ENDOGAMY
GOD-CHILDREN/-PARENTS GOSSIP (=
GOD-SIB)
JUVENES (= "les jeunes" = "the young men")
ROBERT OF MEULAN D. 1118
LAUDATIO PARENTUM CALUMPNIA (heir's challenge to
father's gift)
RETRAIT
LIGNAGER
FORMARIAGE (Out-marriage, when serfs
marry outside the lordship)
SEQUELA (= suit, brood of piglets etc., a
demeaning reference to serfs' children)
MACONNAIS
CLAN
LINEAGE
COGNATIO PARENTELIC
KINSHIP PRIMOGENITURE
PROBITAS
BASTARDS
JUVENES (young, unmarried men)
DOCTRINE OF REPRESENTATION (by
which a son
can take the place in inherutance of a dead father etc.)
DOS (Latin wordmeaning "endowment", but
understood at various times to denote "dower", "dowry" etc.)
RAPTUS (Rape/Abduction)
OBLATES (Child offered up on a monastery
altar to become a monk)
BURCHARD OF WORMS DISCRETIO
FRENCH KINGS: ROBERT THE PIOUS
(996-1031), LOUIS VII (1137-80), PHILIP
(II) AUGUSTUS (1180-1223)
FRENCH QUEENS: ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
INGEBORG OF DENMARK
Texts for Discussion
Anglo-Saxon Betrothal
Regulations *
Betrothal Document from Southern Burgundy,
994
Bestiary on Crows *
Murray, nos. 6
(Cnut's Laws, I. 6-7, 24; II. 50-55, 70, 72-4), 26-7
(13th c. Marriage Rules), 54
(Marriage as "feudal" business: Omit Magna Carta)