Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England »

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.

List of illustrations vi

List of tables vi

Acknowledgements vii

Abbreviations viii

Introduction 1

1 Canon law kinship structures 9

2 Common law kinship structures 39

3 The dominance of canon law kinship ideas 68

4 Kinship laws in practice 92

5 Trends underlying legal kinship structures 115

Conclusion 141

Appendices

1 Raymón of Penyafort's Quia tractare intendimus 147

2 The historical introduction to Sciendum est 163

3 Common law adaptations of canon law treatises: Quibus modis 167

4 Common law adaptations of canon law treatises: Triplex est 175

Bibliography 183

Index 193