The idea of marriage as a sacrament is part of the larger history of
identifying 7 sacraments. A useful book in this area is Hugh of St.
Victor on the Sacraments of the Christian Faith, tr. R.J. Deferrari
(Cambridge, MS: Medieval Academy, 1951).
Much of the legal material can be found introduced in R. Helmholz,
Marriage litigation in Medieval England (Cambridge, 1974).
Tom Izbicki
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