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Parental Authority and Freedom of Choice: The Debate on Clandestinity and Parental Consent at the Council of Trent

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

After a long debate the Council of Trent decided, in 1563, against the validity of marriages contracted informally, without a public ceremony. Marriages without parental consent, however, remained valid. These decisions are frequently described as a pragmatic compromise, where one controversial reform was rejected in favor of another, equally controversial. Yet there was, as this article will show, a significant difference in how the delegates addressed the questions of publicity and parental consent. While the discussion of the former mostly concerned how (not if) a reform could be carried out, the discussion of the latter concerned the very principle of mandatory parental consent. The ensuing debate reflects the clash between two opposing views of marriage in sixteenth-century Europe: on the one hand, the couple-oriented, consensualist conception of classical canon law; and on the other, the family-oriented conception of both Protestant and Catholic reformers with its emphasis on order, stability, and parental authority.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

51-72

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Sixteenth Century Journal

Volym

45

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Kirksville, Mo.: The Sixteenth Century Journal

Ämne

  • History of Ideas

Nyckelord

  • Marriage
  • Parental consent
  • Council of Trent
  • Early Modern

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Force and fear as impediment to marriage. Attitudes, norms and legislation during the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the Counter Reformation

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0361-0160