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Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages
A Reader
Jacqueline Murray (Edited by)
9781551111049
Paperback / softback, published 1 September 2001
524 pages
22.9 x 14.7 x 3.6 cm, 0.88 kg
This reader of primary sources focuses on the burgeoning field of the medieval family. While much of what it means to be in love, or to marry, or to be part of a family has remained consistent over the past two millennia, dramatic changes have also taken place. Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages now allows readers a vivid sense of what these issues, which make up so much of daily life, meant to those in the Middle Ages.
I. Foundations and Influences 1. The Biblical Foundations II. Love and its Dangers 8. A Biblical Celebration of Love III. Marriage and the Church 23. The Theology of Marriage: Peter Lombard's Sentences IV. Marriage Ceremonies, Rituals, and Customs 31. Pope Nicholas's Letter to a Bulgarian King (866) V. Husbands and Wives 36. An Early Christian View of Husbands and Wives 46. Marriage Among the Franks VII. Childbirth 59. Gregory the Great on Sex, Childbirth, and Purity VIII. Parents and Children 64. Biblical Advice on Parent/Child Relations IX. Beyond Christendom 74. Laws Regulating Contact Between Jews, Muslims, and Christians Index of Topics Sources
2. The Germanic Foundations
3. Theological Foundations: Augustine, On the Good of Marriage
4. Theological Foundations: Augustine on Marriage as a Social Institution
5. Legal Foundations: The Burgundian Laws
6. Legal Foundations: Anglo-Saxon Laws
7. Pastoral Foundations: The Penitential of Theodore
9. The Biblical Regulation of Sexual Behavior
10. The Marriage of Thorstein and Spes
11. Charlemagne's Daughter and Her Lover
12. The Ideology of Courtly Love
13. Troubadour Love Poetry
14. Goliardic Love Songs
15. Vernacular Love Songs
16. Adulterous Love: The Story of Equitan
17. A Debate about Love and Marriage: The Owl and the Nightingale
18. Abelard and Heloise
19. Paolo and Francesca
20. Edward III's Love for the Countess of Salisbury (1342)
21. The Paston Family on Love and Marriage
22. Prosecutions and Punishments for Sexual Misconduct
24. A Woman's View of Marriage: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias
25. The Good of Marriage: Etienne de Fourgères
26. Ecclesiastical Legislation: the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
27. Episcopal Legislation: the Statutes of Salisbury (1217-19)
28. The Parish Priest and the Rules of Marriage
29. How to Dissolve a Marriage
30. Marriage Litigation in Fifteenth-Century London
32. The Legend of St. Nicholas and the Three Dowries
33. A Bad Courtship and a Good: Ruodlieb
34. The Liturgy of Marriage
35. Popular Customs and Marriage Celebrations
37. Tertullian: To His Wife (ca. 200)
38. An Anti-matrimonial Diatribe
39. A Grieving Husband: The Death of Einhard's Emma
40. The Marriage of Guibert of Nogent's Parents
41. Cautionary Tales
42. A Sermon on the Ideal Husband
43. A Popular View of Marriage: The Vision of Piers the Plowman
44. Saint Bernardino on Marriage
45. The Fifteen Joys of Marriage
VI. Marriage and Family
47. Counting Families in the Ninth Century
48. Spiritual Marriages
49. A Rebellious Wife
50. An Unhappy Marriage: Godelive of Ghistelle
51. A Lord Asserts his Rights: Gerald of Aurillac
52. Duplicitous Wives and Illegitimate Heirs
53. The Legitimation of Children
54. Feudal Marriage
55. A Fraudulent Marriage Agreement (1280)
56. Marriage Cases in Village Courts
57. Housing and Households
58. Domestic Violence
60. A Medical Discussion of Childbirth
61. Description of a Birthing Chamber
62. Prayers for Women in Childbirth
63. Rejoicing for a Safe Delivery
65. Jerome on the Education of Girls
66. Frankish Parents' Grief
67. An Unhappy Childhood: Guibert of Nogent
68. The Ideals of Childhood
69. Intrafamilial Conflict
70. Parents, Children, and Child-rearing
71. A Happy Childhood: Jean Froissart
72. The Instruction of Children
73. The Care of Orphans
75. Marriage Cases in the Jewish Community
76. A Jewish Merchant's Letter
77. A Jewish Father's Advice: Eleazar of Mainz
78. Islamic Teaching on Marriage and the Family
79. Christian Misunderstanding of Islamic Teachings on Marriage
80. The Cathar's Rejection of Marriage