D'Avray, D;
Menski, W;
(2019)
Authenticating Marriage: The Decree Tametsi in a Comparative Global Perspective.
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
, 27
pp. 71-89.
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Abstract
The most common form of global history traces the growing power of the West and tries to explain it. There is a parallel story of the expansion of Christianity, in which the influence of the Council of Trent on the world as a whole deserves a more prominent place than it has received. But there is another kind of global history: the comparative sort. This article looks at the Council of Trent’s solution to the problem of clandestine marriages in a comparative perspective, showing how the problems it faced are paralleled in three other societies, but also that a unique mechanism for dealing w
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Authenticating Marriage: The Decree Tametsi in a Comparative Global Perspective |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://rg.rg.mpg.de/en/article_id/1240 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License |
| Keywords: | Tametsi, Sharia, Pakistan, Trent, Hardwicke |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1544255 |
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