Sara McDougall teaches history at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

"This is an excellent book. McDougall makes a persuasive argument that understanding the prosecution of bigamy in fifteenth-century Troyes entails some fairly radical changes in how we see late medieval marriage and the place of Christianity in late medieval culture."-Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University

• IntroductionChapter 1. Marriage and Remarriage in the Later Middle Ages: Law, Theology, and CultureChapter 2. Bigamous HusbandsChapter 3. Abandoned WivesChapter 4. Why Commit Bigamy?Chapter 5. Why Prosecute Bigamy?ConclusionAppendix. Selected Transcriptions from a Register of the Officiality of TroyesNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Sara McDougall teaches history at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

"This is an excellent book. McDougall makes a persuasive argument that understanding the prosecution of bigamy in fifteenth-century Troyes entails some fairly radical changes in how we see late medieval marriage and the place of Christianity in late medieval culture."-Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University

• IntroductionChapter 1. Marriage and Remarriage in the Later Middle Ages: Law, Theology, and CultureChapter 2. Bigamous HusbandsChapter 3. Abandoned WivesChapter 4. Why Commit Bigamy?Chapter 5. Why Prosecute Bigamy?ConclusionAppendix. Selected Transcriptions from a Register of the Officiality of TroyesNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Sara McDougall teaches history at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

"This is an excellent book. McDougall makes a persuasive argument that understanding the prosecution of bigamy in fifteenth-century Troyes entails some fairly radical changes in how we see late medieval marriage and the place of Christianity in late medieval culture."-Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University

• IntroductionChapter 1. Marriage and Remarriage in the Later Middle Ages: Law, Theology, and CultureChapter 2. Bigamous HusbandsChapter 3. Abandoned WivesChapter 4. Why Commit Bigamy?Chapter 5. Why Prosecute Bigamy?ConclusionAppendix. Selected Transcriptions from a Register of the Officiality of TroyesNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments