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Common law versus common practice: the use of marriage settlements in early modern inland
Amy Louise Erickson

Frieri och bröllop i Kullabygden omkring mitten av 1800–talet Av Therese Nelson
https://www.hembygdshistoria.se/kullens/kullabygd/frieri.htm

Between Betrothal and Bedding: Marriage Formation in Sweden 1200-1600
By Mia Korpiola

Matrimonium, The Roman section only (pp740‑744) of an article on pp735‑744 of
William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Matrimonium.html#customs

Genuflection in Medieval Western Culture: The Gesture of Expiation—The Praying Posture
Przemyslaw Mrozowski
Acta Poloniae Historica 68, 5-26, 1993

Courtship, illegitimacy, and marriage in early modern England
Richard Adair
Manchester University Press, 1996

Manhood in Early Modern England
Honour, Sex and Marriage
ByElizabeth A Foyster

Marriage in the Middle Ages
Simon Newman
http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/marriage-in-the-middle-ages.html

Gender Equality and the Welfare state. Debates on Marriage Law Reform in Sweden at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Christina Carlsson Wetterberg
Family Law in Early Womens’s Rights Debates, ed. Stephan Meder and Christoph-Eric Mecke, 255-280, 2013