Mujeres y matrimonio en las tres provincias vascas durante la Baja Edad Media

Castrillo Casado, Janire

Publication year:

2012

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

Marriage was one of the key factors of the "social building" at the end of the Middle Ages. That is why its study can contribute with interesting results for History and, particularly, for Women´s History. In the next pages we are going to analyze how this institution was in the Three Basque Provinces. Therefore, we are going to use a gender perspective to examine the family strategies for the spouse selection, the nuptial rites (desposatio and velatio), the economic regime of the marriage and, finally, the dissolution of couples.