Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages

Name: Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780226167732

ISBN-10: 0226167739

ISBN-13: 9780226167732

Edition: 1993

Authors: Georges Duby, Jane Dunnett

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Preeminent medieval scholar Georges Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism--both bastions of masculinity--as he reveals the role of women, what they represented, and what they were in the Middle Ages. Beautifully written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is an ideal entree into Duby's thinking about marriage and the diversities of love, spousal decorum, family structure, and their cultural context in bodily and spiritual values. Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages will be of great interest to students in social and cultural history, medieval and early modern history, and women's studies,…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Sources and Acknowledgments. Authors Note



Love and Marriage



Marriage in early medieval society



What do we know about love in twelfth-century France?



The matron and the mismarried woman



On courtly love



Le Roman de la Rose



Towards a history of women in France and Spain



Family Structures



Family structures in the West during the Middle Ages



An examination of aristocratic family structures in eleventh-century France in relation to State structures



Philip Augustus's France. Social changes in aristocratic circles



Culture, Values and Society



Problems and methods in cultural history



The history of value systems



The Renaissance of the twelfth century: audience and patronage



Observations of physical pain in the Middle Ages



Memories without historians



Heresies and societies in pre-industrial Europe between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries


Index