Love, Sex & Marriage in the Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB)

A Sourcebook
Redaktion: Mccarthy, Conor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This updated edition collects an extensive range of evidence for how people in the European Middle Ages thought about the emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000569636
• Artikelnr.: 63778296

Autorenporträt

Conor McCarthy is Director of Philanthropy at the National Library of Australia. He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice (2004), Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry (2008), and Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Ecclesiastical Sources 1. Sex, Marriage and the Church in Early Medieval England 2. Theology and Canon Law 3. Canon Law and Actual Practice 4. Beyond Medieval Christendom Part 2: Legal Sources 5. Early Medieval English Law 6. Early Medieval Germanic and Celtic Laws 7. Anglo-Norman/English Law 8. Cases from the Secular Courts Part 3: Saints' Lives, Letters, Chronicles, Conduct Books 9. Saints' Lives and Female Religious Writings 10. Letters 11. Chronicles 12. Conduct Books Part 4: Literary Sources 13. Old English Literature 14. Middle English Literature 15. Welsh Literature 16. Irish Literature 17. Icelandic Literature 18. Latin Literature 19. Arabic Literature 20. French Literature 21. German Literature 22. Italian Literature Part 5: Medical Writings 23. Medical Writings on Love 24. Medical Writings on Sex