The medieval marriage scene : prudence, passion, policy /

"Discusses the latest research on medieval marriage, family, and related topics from the perspectives of literature, history, art history, law, religious studies, and economics, in multiple contexts from London to Valencia to the Levant"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Roush, Sherry, Baskins, Cristelle Louise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
Series:Penn State medieval studies ; no. 1.
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; 299.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Medieval Jewish models of marriage / Judith R. Baskin
  • At marriage end : Girolamo Savonarola and the question of widows in late fifteenth-century Florence / Konrad Eisenbichler
  • Lollardy and the integrity of marriage and the family / Dyan Elliott
  • Germanic marriage : the case of Medieval Iceland / Jenny Jochens
  • The many loves of Philip Augustus / John W. Baldwin
  • Scenes from a marriage : hospitality and commerce in Boccaccio's Tale of Saladin and Torello / Cristelle L. Baskins
  • Women talking about marriage in William Dunbar and Hans Sachs / Priscilla Bawcutt
  • The old and the feckless : Fabliau husbands / Elizabeth W. Poe
  • The dilemma of the widow of property for late medieval London / Barbara A. Hanawalt
  • Counsel and consent : preparing for marriage litigation according to the fourteenth-century York cause papers / Frederik Pedersen
  • Marriage gifts and fashion mischief / Susan Mosher Stuard
  • Tecla Servent and her two husbands / Ronald E. Surtz.