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ISBN-10 : 0192519743 

ISBN-13 : 9780192519740

Author: Elisabeth Van Houts 

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married – the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life – the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living – which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900–1300 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Getting Married
1. Making of Marriage
Parents and Kin
Kings and Lords
Elopement and Abduction
Conclusion
2. Wedding Celebrations
Elite Weddings
Lower-Status Weddings
‘Mantle’ Ceremonies
Wedding Rings
Conclusion
Part II. Married Life
3. Sexuality and Love
Sex and Married Couples
Beds and Bedrooms
Love and Affection
Conclusion
4. Authority and Collaboration
The Husband’s Authority and Wifely Advice
Marital Violence
Collaboration and Sharing Responsibilities
Conclusion
5. End of Marriage and Remarriage
Ending and Beginning Again
Remarried Life and Sexuality
Children and Stepchildren
Conclusion
6. Clerical Marriages
Parma and Paris
Rhetoric and Domesticity
The Clergy’s Perspectives on Their Married Lives
Conclusion
Part III. Alternative Living
7. Living with One or More Partners
Elite Polygyny
Living Together
Jewish and Muslim Relationships
Conclusion
8. Single Life
Agency and Consent for Entry Into Monastic Life
Single Women
Single Men
Conclusion

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