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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 975 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

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See Sohm, Eheschliessung, 153-63; and Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 37, 38, who reach this conclusion from an examination of the various English and continental rituals; especially the ritual of Rennes, ca. eleventh century, in Martene, II, 127; also Sohm, op. cit., 159, 160; Dieckhoff, Die kirch. Trauung, 77, 78.

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