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Author D'Avray, D. L., author.

Title Papacy, monarchy and marriage, 860-1600 / D.L. d'Avray (University College London)
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 355 pages)
Contents A Gallican forerunner -- Concepts -- Polygyny -- Emotional persuasion in a public sphere : Nicholas I and Lothar -- Canon law subverts itself -- Due process -- Biological kinship -- Spiritual kinship -- Impotence and magic -- Pre-puberty marriage -- Physical impotence -- Adult non-consummation and pre-contract -- Henry VIII's biblical bid -- Reception of dispensation : plaisance and Henri IV -- Diverging trends : annulments and dispensations -- Annulments and dispensations : two theological rationalities -- Dispensations and their diplomatic -- Ten theses and an argument -- Documents -- Index of manuscripts
Summary "This analysis of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explains how and how far popes controlled royal entry into and exits from their marriages. In the period between c. 860 and 1600, the personal lives of kings became the business of the papacy. D'Avray explores the rationale for papal involvement in royal marriages and uses them to analyse the structure of church-state relations. The marital problems of the Carolingian Lothar II, of English kings--John, Henry III, and Henry VIII--and other monarchs, especially Spanish and French, up to Henri IV of France and La Reine Margot, have their place in this exploration of how canon law came to constrain pragmatic political manoeuvring within a system increasingly rationalised from the mid-thirteenth century on. Using documents presented in the author's Dissolving Royal Marriages, the argument brings out hidden connections between legal formality, annulments, and dispensations, at the highest social level"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Europe -- History
Marriage -- Europe -- Religious aspects -- History
Marriage -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History
Church and state -- Europe -- History
Papacy -- History.
Canon law -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Royal houses -- Europe -- History
Divorce -- Europe -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Church and state
Divorce
Kings and rulers
Marriage -- Religious aspects
Marriages of royalty and nobility
Papacy
Politics and government
Royal houses
Monarchie
Eheschließung
Papst
History.
SUBJECT Europe -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Europe -- Politics and government -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045734
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045736
Europe -- Religious life and customs
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
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