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Sex, law, and marriage in the Middle Ages / James A. Brundage.

Title
Sex, law, and marriage in the Middle Ages / James A. Brundage.
Author
Brundage, James A.
Publication
Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, c1993.

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Description
1 v. (various pagings); 23 cm.
Series Statement
Variorum collected studies series ; CS397
Uniform Title
Collected studies ; CS397.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1000-1500
  • Geschichte 500-1500
  • Sex and law > Europe > History
  • Marriage (Canon law) > History
  • Sex crimes (Canon law) > History
  • Sex > History
  • Law, Medieval
  • Sexual Behavior > history
  • Marriage > history
  • Sexual Behavior > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Religion and Sex > history
  • Canon law
  • Europe
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Carnal delight: canonistic theories of sexuality -- 'Allas! That evere love was synne': sex and medieval canon law -- 'Better to marry than to burn?': the case of the vanishing dichotomy -- Sexuality, marriage, and the reform of Christian society in the thought of Gregory VII -- Sex and canon law: a statistical analysis of samples of canon and civil law -- Sexual equality in medieval canon law -- Concubinage and marriage in medieval canon law -- Rape and marriage in the medieval canon law -- Marriage and sexuality in the decretals of Pope Alexander III -- Impotence, frigidity and marital nullity in the decretists and the early decretalists -- Let me count the ways: canonists and theologians contemplate coital positions -- The treatment of marriage in the Questiones Londinenses (MS Royal 9.E.VII) -- Intermarriage between Christians and Jews in medieval canon law -- Prostitution in the medieval canon law -- Sumptuary laws and prostitution in late medieval Italy -- Matrimonial politics in thirteenth-century Aragon: Moncada v. Urgel -- The Politics of sodomy: Rex v. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311).
ISBN
0860783677 (HB : alk. paper) :
LCCN
^^^93004197^
OCLC
28017830
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library