This reader of primary sources focuses on the burgeoning field of the medieval family. While much of what it means to be in love, or to marry, or to be part of a family has remained consistent over the past two millennia, dramatic changes have also taken place. Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages now allows readers a vivid sense of what these issues, which make up so much of daily life, meant to those in the Middle Ages.
This reader of primary sources focuses on the burgeoning field of the medieval family. While much of what it means to be in love, or to marry, or t...
The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the twelfth and the early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has deeply informed contemporary ideas about sex.
The volume grew out of a conference at the University of Toronto on human sexuality in the medieval and early modern world. Featuring works by world-renowned scholars, it presents a broad cross-section of current research and a diversity of...
The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks...
These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, aim to extend understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.
These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, aim to extend unders...
