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Medieval Marriage Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300 Literary Approaches, 1100-1300

Medieval Marriage Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300 Literary Approaches, 1100-1300

Cartlidge, Neil M. R.

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0859915123
ISBN13: 9780859915120
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: May 1 1997
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.

This book uses literary texts to trace the development of medieval thinking about marriage in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, taking into account not only important developments in theological and legal thinking about marriage during this period, but conventions such as courtly love', which affect its portrayal in literary texts. The focus of this study is upon England, and specifically three groups of texts linked together by English manuscripts -the AB'-Group, containing the Ancrene Wisse; The Owl and the Nightingale and its companion-pieces; and finally the Life of St Christina of Markyate and the Chanson de Saint Alexiswhich she once owned. The author demonstrates the continuity of these texts in their attitude towards marriage, along with continental works such as the letters of Abelard and Heloise, and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide. Throughout, the volume clearly and accessibly shows how the imaginative literature of the period participated in the evolution of a new and enduring ideology of marriage.

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