Written by Dr Paul Dryburgh. If, like me, you’ve been enjoying BBC4’s Medieval Lives, you will have been fascinated by the recent episode on Marriage. The idea that a marriage in the Middle Ages could be contracted and considered valid on the strength of a few words of consent, often spoken in private and/or under … Continue reading Present and Future Consent: proving marriage in fourteenth-century Yorkshire
Present and Future Consent: proving marriage in fourteenth-century Yorkshire
