medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear List: I'm certainly surprised that twelfth century marriage
charters in the area of Chartres had the dowry usually in land.
Judging from examples from the region of Toulouse, I came to the
conviction that one reason for dowries is that a family could give
the girls money instead of productive means like real property
which could be retained for the family. Not that money dowries
were not more or less equal in value to the portions the male heirs
were to recieve. Yours, John Mundy
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