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The medieval idea of marriage

Title
The medieval idea of marriage / Christopher N.L. Brooke.
Author
Brooke, Christopher, 1927-2015.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Description
xviii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 pages
Subject
  • Geschichte 500-1500
  • Marriage > History
  • Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity > History
  • Marriage customs and rites, Medieval
  • Marriage > history
  • Marriage
  • Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Ehe
  • Huwelijk
  • Casamento e familia
  • Historia medieval > ocidente (sociedade)
  • Marriage in literature
  • Mariage > Moyen âge
  • Mariage > Rites et cérémonies chrétiennes > Histoire > Moyen Age
  • Mariage > Aspects religieux > Christianisme > Histoire > Moyen Age
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 287-312.
Contents
Approaches -- 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.
ISBN
  • 0198217773
  • 9780198217770
  • 9786610801855
  • 6610801851
LCCN
88034208
OCLC
  • ocm18947995
  • 18947995
  • SCSB-1731973
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library