Texts and Commentary
P1: KNP CUUS187-01 CUUS187/Donahue 978 0 521 87728 2 February 9, 2008 16:18 Texts and Commentary 1. Introd, n. 5: The closest that the developed classical law came to an impediment on cross-class marriages was the impediment of error of person, and this was not a prohibition of cross-class marriage but a rule designed to ensure that one knew what one was doing. See Ch 1. 2. Introd, n. 6: For marriage among the lower strata of English society, see Homans, English Villagers, 144–94. For women, see Stenton, English Woman in History, 29–74. For some causes cel´ ebres` involving diplomatic marriages, see Smith, Papal Enforcement. See generally Howard, History of Matrimonial Institutions. 3. Introd, n. 7: Nul besoin d’insister sur le fait que tout mariage etait´ alors une affaire decidee,´ conduite, et conclue par le pere` et les anciens du lignage. 4. Introd, n. 8: See Holdsworth, History of English Law, 3:31, 201; Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, 1:368, 372–3; Bennett, Life on the English Manor, 240–8; Homans, English Villagers, 149–52. 5. Introd, n. 17: Compare, e.g., Armengaud, La famille et l’enfant; Mousnier, La famille, l’enfant et l’education´ , and Pillorget, La tige et le rameau, with Macfarlane, Origins of English Individualism, and Macfarlane, Marriage and Love in England. 6. Introd, n. 23: See id. 344–6; Luther, Tischreden 1:229–30, in Werke 62; preamble to Stat., 32 Hen. 8, c. 38 (1540); Council of Trent, sess. 24, Canones super reformatione matrimonii,c.1(Tametsi), in Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils 2:755–6.
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