Abduction, Marriage and Consent in the Middle Ages - Episode 16 of the Medieval Grad Podcast (Patreon)

What did it mean to abduct your fiancé? Lucie Laumonier talks with Chanelle Delameillieure about marriage and consent in the late medieval Low Countries. Chanelle is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, currently a visiting scholar at Columbia in the United States. She defended her dissertation in 2020, titled “Contentious Consent. Abduction, Control over Marriage and Legal Strategy in the Late Medieval Low Countries.” We learn that consented abductions were a thing, but that they could lead to contentious outcomes!