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| Introduction | |
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| Foundations and Influences | |
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| The Biblical Foundations | |
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| The Germanic Foundations | |
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| Theological Foundations: Augustine, On the Good of Marriage | |
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| Theological Foundations: Augustine on Marriage as a Social Institution | |
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| Legal Foundations: The Burgundian Laws | |
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| Legal Foundations: Anglo-Saxon Laws | |
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| Pastoral Foundations: The Penitential of Theodore | |
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| Love and Its Dangers | |
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| A Biblical Celebration of Love | |
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| The Biblical Regulation of Sexual Behavior | |
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| The Marriage of Thorsteinn and Spes | |
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| Charlemagne's Daughter and Her Lover | |
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| The Ideology of Courtly Love | |
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| Troubadour Love Poetry | |
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| Goliardic Love Songs | |
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| Vernacular Songs of Love | |
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| Adulterous Love: The Story of Equitan | |
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| A Debate about Love and Marriage: The Owl and the Nightingale | |
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| Abelard and Heloise | |
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| Paolo and Francesca | |
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| Edward III's Love for the Countess of Salisbury (1342) | |
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| The Paston Family on Love and Marriage | |
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| Prosecutions and Punishments for Sexual Misconduct | |
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| Marriage and the Church | |
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| The Theology of Marriage: Peter Lombard's Sentences | |
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| A Woman's View of Marriage: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias | |
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| The Good of Marriage: Etienne de Fougeres | |
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| Ecclesiastical Legislation: The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) | |
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| Episcopal Legislation: The Statutes of Salisbury (1217-19) | |
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| The Parish Priest and the Rules of Marriage | |
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| How to Dissolve a Marriage | |
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| Marriage Litigation in Fifteenth-Century London | |
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| Marriage Ceremonies, Rituals, and Customs | |
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| Pope Nicholas's Letter to a Bulgarian King (866) | |
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| The Legend of St. Nicholas and the Three Dowries | |
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| A Bad Courtship and a Good: Ruodlieb | |
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| The Liturgy of Marriage | |
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| Popular Customs and Marriage Celebrations | |
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| Husbands and Wives | |
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| An Early Christian View of Husbands and Wives | |
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| Tertullian: To His Wife (ca. 200) | |
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| An Anti-Matrimonial Diatribe | |
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| A Grieving Husband: The Death of Einhard's Emma | |
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| The Marriage of Guibert of Nogent's Parents | |
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| Cautionary Tales | |
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| A Sermon on the Ideal Husband | |
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| A Popular View of Marriage: The Vision of Piers the Plowman | |
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| St. Bernardino on Marriage | |
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| The Fifteen Joys of Marriage | |
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| Marriage and Family | |
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| Marriage Among the Franks | |
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| Counting Families in the Ninth Century | |
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| Spiritual Marriages | |
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| A Rebellious Wife | |
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| An Unhappy Marriage: Godelieve of Ghistelle | |
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| A Lord Asserts his Rights: Gerald of Aurillac | |
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| Duplicitous Wives and Illegitimate Heirs | |
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| The Legitimation of Children | |
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| Feudal Marriage | |
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| A Fraudulent Marriage Agreement (1280) | |
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| Marriage Cases in Village Courts | |
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| Housing and Households | |
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| Domestic Violence | |
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| Childbirth | |
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| Gregory the Great on Sex, Childbirth, and Purity | |
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| A Medical Discussion of Childbirth | |
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| Description of a Birthing Chamber | |
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| Prayers for Women in Childbirth | |
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| Rejoicing for a Safe Delivery | |
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| Parents and Children | |
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| Biblical Advice on Parent/Child Relations | |
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| Jerome on the Education of Girls | |
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| Frankish Parents' Grief | |
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| An Unhappy Childhood: Guibert of Nogent | |
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| The Ideals of Childhood | |
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| Intrafamilial Conflict | |
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| Parents, Children, and Child-rearing | |
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| A Happy Childhood: Jean Froissart | |
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| The Instruction of Children | |
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| The Care of Orphans | |
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| Beyond Christendom | |
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| Laws Regulating Contact Between Jews, Muslims, and Christians | |
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| Marriage Cases in the Jewish Community | |
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| A Jewish Merchant's Letter | |
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| A Jewish Father's Advice: Eleazar of Mainz | |
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| Islamic Teachings on Marriage and the Family | |
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| Christian Misunderstanding of Islamic Teachings on Marriage | |
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| The Cathars' Rejection of Marriage | |
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| Index of Topics | |
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| Sources | |