Marriage Symbolism and the Papal Penitentiary
Professor David d’Avray, Professor of History at University College London, has been studying aspects of medieval marriage for some years. Here, he describes two cases that illustrate the close connection between marriage symbolism and law in the Middle Ages.
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Published in Review, Issue 7.
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