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Additional authors

1. Murray, Jacqueline

Description

1. xiv, 524 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; 7

Uniform title

1. Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; 7.

Subject

1. Families > History > To 1500 > Sources
2. Marriage > History > To 1500 > Sources
3. Social history > Medieval, 500-1500 > Sources
4. Famille > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500 > Sources
5. Mariage > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500 > Sources
6. Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) > Sources

Genre/Form

1. History
2. Sources

Contents

1. Foundations and influences. The biblical foundations ; The Germanic foundations ; Theological foundations : Augustine, On the good marriage ; Theological foundations : Augustine on marriage as a social institution ; Legal foundations : The Burgundian laws ; Legal foundations : Anglo-Saxon laws ; Pastoral foundations : The penitential of Theodore -- Love and its dangers. A biblical celebration of love ; The biblical regulation of sexual behavior ; The marriage of Thorsteinn and Spes ; Charlemagne's daughter and her lover ; The ideology of courtly love ; Troubadour love poetry ; Goliardic love songs ; Vernacular songs of love ; Adulterous love : the story of Equitan ; A debate about love and marriage : The owl and the nightingale ; Abelard and Heloise ; Paolo and Francesca ; Edward III's love for the Countess of Salisbury (1342) ; The Paston family on love and marriage ; Prosecutions and punishments for sexual misconduct -- Marriage and the church. The theology of marriage : Peter Lombard's Sentences ; A woman's view of marriage: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias ; The good of marriage: Etienne de Fougères ; Ecclesiastical legislation: the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) ; Episcopal legislation: the statues of Salisbury (1217-19) ; The parish priest and the rules of marriage ; How to dissolve a marriage ; Marriage litigation in fifteenth-century London -- Marriage ceremonies, rituals, and customs. Pope Nicholas's letter to a Bulgarian king (866) ; The legend of St. Nicholas and the three dowries ; A bad courtship and a good : Ruodlieb ; The liturgy of marriage ; Popular customs and marriage celebrations.
2. Husbands and wives. An early Christian view of husbands and wives ; Tertullian: To his wife (ca. 200) ; An anti-matrimonial diatribe ; A grieving husband: the death of Einhard's Emma ; The marriage of Guibert of Nogent's parents ; Cautionary tales ; A sermon on the ideal husband ; A popular view of marriage: The vision of Piers the plowman ; St. Bernardino on marriage ; The fifteen joys of marriage -- Marriage and family. Marriage among the Franks ; Counting families in the ninth century ; Spiritual marriages ; A rebellious wife ; An unhappy marriage: Godelieve of Ghistelle ; A lord asserts his rights: Gerald of Aurillac ; Duplicitous wives and illegitimate heirs ; The legitimation of children ; Feudal marriage ; A fraudulent marriage agreement (1280) ; Marriage cases in village courts ; Housing and households ; Domestic violence -- Childbirth. Gregory the Great in sex, childbirth, and purity ; A medical discussion of childbirth ; Description of a birthing chamber ; Prayers for women in childbirth ; Rejoicing for a safe delivery -- Parents and children. Biblical advice on parent/child relations ; Jerome on the education of girls ; Frankish parents' grief ; An unhappy childhood: Guibert of Nogent ; The ideals of childhood ; Intrafamilial conflict ; Parents, children, and child-rearing ; A happy childhood: Jean Froissart ; The instruction of children ; The care of orphans -- Beyond Christendom. Laws regulating contact between Jews, Muslims, and Christians ; Marriage cases in the Jewish community ; A Jewish merchant's letter ; A Jewish father's advice : Eleazar of Mainz ; Islamic teachings on marriage and the family ; Christian misunderstanding of Islamic teachings on marriage ; The Cathar's rejection of marriage.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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