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Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages
Duby, Georges
Summary
A collection of 16 essays written between 1967 and 1986 examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages.
A collection of 16 essays written between 1967 and 1986 examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages. In the first part of the book Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism, whilst in the second he reflects on more general issues in the writing of cultural history, on the history of pain and heresy, and the state of historical research in France over recent generations. Now available in paperback.
Perfect for fans of Medieval, History, Europe, Anthropology & Sociology, Biography, Medical, Legal & Social Sciences.
Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 231 pages · Hardcover
- By Duby, Georges
Details
- ISBN: 9780745606811
- Author: Duby, Georges
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 231
- Language: English
- Publication date: 10 November 1993
- Condition: New
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In this volume Georges Duby - member of the Academie Francaise and one of the preeminent medieval scholars of our time - addresses the theme of love and marriage in the Middle Ages.
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