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A bibliography of sources of information on medieval weddings by Gunnora Hallakarva.

 

NOTE: See also the files: weddings-msg, p-marriage-msg, WS-msg.

 

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:09:11 -0600

From: Gunnora Hallakarva <gunnora at bga.com>

To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu

Subject: Sources for Medieval Marriage

 

For the person researching early Scottish weddings, some of these sources

may prove useful.

 

(1) These are a few books I turned up while researching Viking weddings (see

http://www.realtime.net/~gunnora/wedding.htm) that may be useful in looking

at other European and especially Scottish weddings:

 

Vern L. Bullough and James Brundage, eds. Sexual Practices and the Medieval

Church. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1982.

 

Jo Ann Macnamara and Suzanne Wemple. "The Power of Women through the Family

in Medieval Europe, 500-1100." in Clio's Consciousness Raised: New

Perspectives on the

History of Women. eds. Mary Hartman and Lois Banner. NY: Harper & Row, 1974.

 

Suzanne Wemple. Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister

500-900. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1981.

 

Christine Fell. Women in Anglo-Saxon England. Bloomington: Indiana U.P.

1984.

 

(2) The following books come from the excellent bibliography on the

"Medieval and Renaissance Weddings" webpage (

http://www.spu.edu/~kst/bib/books.txt) These are by no

means all the books listed there -- I extracted the ones that seem relevant

to the specific purpose of researching Scottish weddings.  See the last

three or four items listed here in particular.

 

Bingham, Joel Foote.  The Christian Marriage Ceremony: Its History,

Significance and Curiosities: Ritual, Practical and Archaeological Notes;

and the Text of the

English, Roman, Greek and Jewish Ceremonies.  New York: A. D. F. Randolph &

Company, 1871.

 

Ennen, Edith.  The Medieval Woman.  Trans. Edmund Jephcott.  Oxford:  Basil

Blackwell, 1989.

 

Bolton, Brenda, et al., eds. Women in Medieval Society.  Philadelphia: U of

Pennsylvania P, 1976.

 

Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence.  The Medieval Idea of Marriage. Oxford:

Oxford UP, 1989. (Historical study of how marriage was viewed, legally,

ecclesiastically and

socially, and how it evolved)

 

Brundage, James A.  Sex, Law and Marriage in the Middle Ages.  Aldershot,

England: Variorum, 1993.

 

Cunnington, Phillis Emily, and Catherine Lucas.  Costume for Births,

Marriages & Deaths.   New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972. (Brief discussions of

clothing and customs

from roughly the 11th to the late 19th centuries, focusing primarily on

England.  Contains many direct quotes from period sources)

 

Duby, Georges.  Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages.  Trans. Jane Dunnett.

Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994.

 

Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies.  Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages.

1st ed.  New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

 

Goldberg, P. J. P.  Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women

in York and Yorkshire c. 1300-1520.  Oxford: Clarendon P; New York: Oxford

UP, 1992.

 

Laiou, Angeliki E., ed. Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient

and Medieval Societies. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library

and Collection,

1993.

 

Powell, Chilton Latham. English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653: a Study of

Matrimony and Family Life in Theory and Practice as Revealed by the

Literature, Law, and

History of the Period.  New York: Columbia UP, 1917.

 

Rollin, Betty.  I Thee Wed: a Collection of Marriage Vows Past and Present,

Here and There.  1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961.

 

Salisbury, Joyce E.  Medieval Sexuality: a Research Guide.  Garland

Reference Library of Social Science 565.  Garland Medieval Bibliographies 5.

New York: Garland,

1990.

 

Schwerdtfeger, Anne. Ethnological Sources of the Christian Marriage

Ceremony.  Stockholm: Ceres, 1982.

 

Searle, Mark, and Kenneth W. Stevenson.  Documents of the Marriage Liturgy.

Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical P, 1992. (_The_ book to read for copies of

the vows

themselves.  Includes a Jewish ceremony and a number of Christian liturgies

from the Early Middle Ages to the present)

 

Stevenson, Kenneth W. Nuptial Blessing: a Study of Christian Marriage

Rites.  New York: Oxford UP, 1983.  (Chapter 2 is a good source for various

rituals and ceremonies, while Chapter 3 deals with marriage customs during the

Reformation)

 

Stone, Lawrence.  The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800.  New

York: Harper & Row, 1977.

 

Tasman, Alice Lea Mast. Wedding Album: Customs and Lore Through the Ages.

New York: Walker, 1982.

 

Van Hoecke, Willy, and Andries Welkenhuysen.  Love and Marriage in the

Twelfth Century. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1, studia 8.  Leuven: Leuven

UP, 1981.

 

Waugh, Scott L.  The Lordship of England: Royal Wardships  and Marriages in

English Society and Politics, 1217-1327.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP,

1988.

 

Charsley, Simon R.  Rites of Marrying: the Wedding Industry in Scotland.

Manchester: Manchester  UP, 1991.

 

Martin  James.  The Road to the Aisle.  New ed.  Edinburgh: Saint Andrew,

1987. (Scottish weddings)

 

McGuire  Kim.  The Irish Wedding Book .  Dublin:  Wolfhound P, 1994.

 

Power, Patrick C.  Sex and Marriage in Ancient Ireland.  Dublin: Mercier,

1976. (reprinted in 1993?)

 

::GUNNORA::

 

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