For an analysis of the question of marriage "at the church door" in terms
of liturgical sources, see Jean-Baptiste Molin and Protais Mutembe, _Le
rituel du marriage en france du xiie au xvie si`ecle_ (The'ologie
historique, 26; Paris: beauchesne, 1974) The authors open with a
consideration of marriage "in the home" up until the 11th century and then
the appearance of stipulations that marriage is to take place "at the
church door" (clear in 12th century documents; not so clear in 11th c.).
As Tom points out Hugh of St. Victor has a long section on marriage,
especially on what makes a marriage valid (consent, for Hugh) and
"clandestine marriage" among other things. Don't remember if he says
anything about the place of the ceremony. You might also check the
passages on marriage in 12th century sentence literature and sources such
as Ivo of Chartres. Also to be looked at: Marcia Colish's book _Peter
Lombard_ (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 41/1 and 41/2; Leiden:
Brill, 1994) I have only the first volume at home and the section on
marriage is in vol. 2. Marcia has about 70 pages (approx. 1/10 of the
entire book) on marriage and I know she sees this topic as an excellent
display of the Lombard's method and success.
I'm sure there are many mss miniatures illustrating such marriage rituals.
However, the Bodleian Alexander ms. has an unusually good one (at least to
me). I will try to find the reference. (It should be in Ohlgren's
inventory of Bodley illuminations).
Enough for now.
Grover Zinn
Oberlin College
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Thomas Izbicki wrote:
> I finally got to my copy of Raymond of Penafort, Summa de matrimonio.
> The most interesting part of the text, in connection with this theme, is a
> gloss by William of Rennes refering to marriages taking place "in facie
> ecclesie," which I take to be a reference to location. I will keyboard
> the reference later.
>
> There also is a chapter in Hugh of St. Victor, On the sacraments, which is
> useful for the theological context.
>
> tom izbicki
>
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