The Medieval Idea of Marriage

ISBN-13: 9780198205043 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str.

Christopher N. L. Brooke

Recenzje

`lucid and authoritative account' History

Spis treści

List of illustrations ; Preface; Prologue; The inheritance, Christian and Roman; The cult of celibacy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; The correspondence of Heloise and Abelard; The marriage of Heloise and Abelard; Marriage in law and practice; The use of literary evidence for the history of marriage: Wolfram von Eschenbach; The witness of Chaucer; Love and marriage in Shakespeare; The church porch: marriage and architecture; Towards a theology of marriage