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‘Till death us do part’?: marriage, love and wills in the Archbishops’ Registers

Posted by sallyanneshearn on 13 April 2016

Written by Helen Watt, Marc Fitch Project Archivist When David Cressy examined aspects of marriage in Tudor and Stuart times, he asked whether or not love played a part in courtship and marriage then (1). Unlike other historians, such as Laurence Stone, he considered that love was fundamental to marriage in that era and in … Continue reading ‘Till death us do part’?: marriage, love and wills in the Archbishops’ Registers

Present and Future Consent: proving marriage in fourteenth-century Yorkshire

Posted by sallyanneshearn on 29 October 2013

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

The Tuke Work Experience Project: Growing up with the Tukes

Posted by sallyanneshearn on 14 June 2013

Between April 15th and April 19th 2013, the Borthwick enlisted the help of a team of Work Experience students to help us work through the large collection of Tuke material that we hold. Part of their remit was to pull out interesting documents from the collection to form a series of blog posts. This week … Continue reading The Tuke Work Experience Project: Growing up with the Tukes