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Biographical note
Wolfgang P. Müller is Professor of History at Fordham University where he specializes in the church and other norms of the European Middle Ages. His publications include Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (1994) and The Criminalization of Abortion in the West (2012).'An ambitious and successful demonstration of the markedly different ways the medieval canon law of marriage was put into practice. Based on a command of archival evidence, it makes an important contribution to European legal and social history.' R. H. Helmholz, University of Chicago
'Müller would have written a more coherent and tightly argued book if he had confined himself to his abundantly documented Northern European case studies. By pushing his analysis southward, however, he wrote a more captivating and stimulating one. The result of his ambition is a sprawling and learned overview of the varied experiences, judicial and penitential, of sacramental marriage in Western Europe over a period of three centuries.' André Vitória, Speculum