Marriage, migration, servanthood and life-cycle in Yorkshire towns of the later Middle Ages: Some York cause paper evidence

“…Annulments were few and hard to come by while instance suits seeking to establish the existence of a valid contract of marriage predominate. 33 It is difficult to gauge the extent or frequency of the actions for formal separation, but the last case, in which ill-will had arisen between Mathew Evrart and his wife over her suspected adultery, is a foretaste of what will be encountered when less formal methods of terminating marriages are examined. Evidence relating to such informal procedures can be found within both the Cerisy register and the Hereford visitation returns.…”

Section: Civil Actions For Annulment and Separation In The Officimentioning

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Repulsa uxore sua: marital difficulties and separation in the later middle ages

Finch¹

1993

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Les archives des tribunaux ecclésiastiques du moyen âge fournissent la preuve qu'elles sont une riche source pour l'étude du mariage. La principale zone d'enquête concerne le processus de la formation du mariage tel qu'il se révèle par les litiges d'instance passes en jugement. Un modèle significatif apparait, celui d'une tension entre le système matrimonial proposé par l'Eglise d'une part et les opinions incompatibles de la laïcité d'autre part quant au moment et à la façon de se marier. Malgré ces tensions manifestes, les témoignages semblent indiquer que les manages sont en général solides et sont contractéd avec le respect dû, vu la gravité des serments échangés.Les archives des affaires officielles des juridictions ecclésiastiques permettent d'examiner ces problèmes à l'aide de témoignages concernant les difficultés matrimoniales et la séparation. Les déclarations faites lors des visites pastorales de Cerisy la Forêt (diocèse de Bayeux) et du diocèse de Hereford ont trait à l'adultère, la mauvaise vie, la violence domestique et la bigamie. Ces archives révèlent encore une variété de situations où les mariages peuvent être terminés au défi des désirs de l'Eglise. On perçoit le mieux la tension entre les attitudes laïques et ecclésiastiques à Cerisy où des annulations formelles et des séparations – accordées très chichement par le tribunal par ailleurs - côtoyent les actions en litige informelles que l'on intente pour mettre fin à des mariages qui laissent à désirer. Quoi qu'il en soit, les actions qui se terminent par une rupture totale ou qui rencontrent des difficultés ne se représented qu'une minorité si on les compare au total probable des mariages sous l'une ou l'autre juridiction.

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“…Although the population of some of the cities during the century after the plague had contained as many as 30 per cent servants, most of them unmarried young people, there had been far fewer servants in the rural areas -probably around 10 per cent. 47 Some of the agricultural servants remained in service for much of their lives. In the decades after 1460 the institution of adolescent service appears to have become more popular in commercialised agrarian regions and the market towns.…”

Section: In 1465-1530mentioning

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Local responses to the poor in late medieval and Tudor England

McIntosh¹

1988

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The leaders of English villages and towns between 1388 and 1598 accepted that deserving poor people, those unable to work to support themselves, warranted private and, if necessary, public assistance. Poverty was objectively mild in the century after the 1349 plague. Economic and demographic developments between c. 1465 and 1530 increased the number of poor people. Religious and political changes of the mid-sixteenth century forced individuals and parishes to assume virtually the entire burden of poor relief. Parliamentary legislation empowered local authorities to raise compulsory taxes for support of the poor. In Elizabeth's reign the problems of poverty intensified, forcing nearly all parishes to use taxation at least in bad years.

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Marriage, migration, servanthood and life-cycle in Yorkshire towns of the later Middle Ages: Some York cause paper evidence

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Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period¹

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Local responses to the poor in late medieval and Tudor England

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Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period1

Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period1

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Local responses to the poor in late medieval and Tudor England

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Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period¹

Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period¹