Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage, 860–1600
David d’Avray
This analysis of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explains how and far popes controlled entry into exits from their marriages. In the period between c.860 1600, personal lives kings became business papacy. d&amp;apos;Avray explores rationale for papal involvement in marriages uses them to analyse structure church-state relations. The marital problems Carolingian Lothar II, English - John, Henry III, VIII other monarchs, especially Spanish French, up Henri IV France La Reine Margot, have place this exploration canon law came constrain pragmatic political manoeuvring within a system increasingly rationalised mid-thirteenth century on. Using documents presented author&amp;apos;s Dissolving Royal Marriages, argument brings out hidden connections legal formality, annulments, dispensations, at highest social level.
Library Union Catalog of Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg (B3Kat Repository)