This is not quite focused on the marriages of slaves, but it does address
slaveholding by *churches*:
G.S. West & A. Wilhelmsen, "The First Council of Seville: 590 A.D.,"
Allegorica 4 (1979): 7-29.
Also, you might check the bibliographies in the Bulletin of Medieval Canon
Law. It is running years behind in production, but the bibliographies for
the 1980's & early 1990's are very thorough.
Tom Izbicki
At 10:35 AM 10/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>Has any learned list-member come across the concept of marriage made by
>>sleeping in the precincts of a church? C. 24 of the Council of Orleans
>>(541) concerns slaves who do so thinking that this will make a marriage:
>>
>>Quaecumque mancipia sub specie coniugii ad ecclesiae septa confugerint, ut
>>per hoc credant posse fieri coniugium, minime eis licentia tribuatur aut
>>talis coniunctio a clericis defensetur, quia pollutum est, ut, qui sine
>>legitima traditione coniuncti pro religionis ordine statuto tempore se ab
>>ecclesiae communione suspendunt, in sacris locis turpi concubitu misceantur
>>. . . (ed. H. Gaudemet, Sources Chretiennes 353,278-280).
>>
>>Or can someone suggest a work on this topic? K. Ritzer (Formen, Riten und
>>religioses Brauchtum...) mentions it only in the context of the "nights of
>>Tobias" and Ph. L. Reynolds (Marriage in the Western Church) not at all. I
>>would be grateful for any suggestion.
>>Bernadette Filotas
>
>This is not quite what you are looking for, but relevant, I think: Dyan
>Elliott, "Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety,"
>originally published in the Journal of Women's History 6 (1994), reprinted
>in her Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle
>Ages (Philadelphia, 1999). The marriage of slaves is discussed in Alan
>Watson, Roman Slave Law (Baltimore, 1987)
>--
>Megan McLaughlin
>Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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