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- Title
Dat zij ‘haers dancks ende moetswillen gegaen es'.
- Authors
Delameillieure, Chanelle
- Abstract
This article examines whether individuals could successfully circumvent parental control on marriage formation by using forced abductions or consensual elopements, thereby contributing to recent debates on the nature of late medieval marriage. Abductions and elopements have been the subject of rigorous study, but historians have approached this topic too narrow because they usually focussed on one source type. By crossing multiple sources of different instances, this article argues that the abduction/elopement was a feasible marriage strategy that wasn't severely punished in practice. However, a reflection on the motives behind abduction/elopement suggests that in the majority of the cases, the abduction was primarily a mechanism to enhance a man's position by forcibly entering wealthy women into marriage, instead of an expedient for rebellious children.
- Subjects
PARENTAL consent (Marriage); ELOPEMENT; ABDUCTION; MARRIAGE; MEDIEVAL civilization
- Publication
TSEG: The Low Countries Journal of Social & Economic History / Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
1572-1701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/tseg.22