Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval culture
  • Married friendship : an ideology for the franklin
  • Public voice, private life: marriage and masculinity in John Gower's Traite
  • Performing reform : marriage, lay piety, and sacramental theater in the N-town Mary plays
  • The marriage of love and sex : Margery Kempe and bourgeois lay identity.