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The medieval idea of marriage
Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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PREFACE (page vii)
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ILLUSTRATIONS (page xvii)
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1. APPROACHES (page 1)
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A Catena of Disciplines (page 1)
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Demography and Statistics (page 11)
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My Approach (page 20)
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St Catherine of Siena and her Confessor (page 23)
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The Sermons of San Bernardino (page 27)
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The Letters of the Merchant of Prato (page 32)
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The Calendar of Lady Margaret Beaufort (page 34)
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2. THE INHERITANCE, CHRISTIAN AND ROMAN (page 39)
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The Early Medieval Inheritance (page 39)
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The Bible (page 41)
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The Interpretation of the Bible (page 51)
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Augustine (page 54)
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The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (page 56)
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3. THE CULT OF CELIBACY IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES (page 61)
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Preamble: Peter Damian, Heloise, and St Jerome (page 61)
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Celibacy and Concubinage (page 63)
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Secular Canons (page 78)
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Paris and Heloise (page 89)
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4. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HELOISE AND ABELARD (page 93)
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5. THE MARRIAGE OF HELOISE AND ABELARD (page 103)
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Heloise (page 103)
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Heloise and Abelard in their Letters (page 110)
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Their Religious Life (page 116)
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6. MARRIAGE IN LAW AND PRACTICE (page 119)
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Marriage, Kingdoms, and Estates (page 119)
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The Ecclesiastical Model (page 126)
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Case-Studies (page 143)
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Epilogue 1. Montaillou (page 157)
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Epilogue 2. The Marriages of Henry VIII (page 162)
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Note: the Chronology of Alexander III's Marriage Decretals (page 169)
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7. THE USE OF LITERARY EVIDENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF MARRIAGE: WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH (page 173)
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Prologue: Literary Evidence (page 173)
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Chretien of Troyes (page 180)
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The Grail and Tristan (page 183)
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Wolfram's Parzival (page 186)
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Wolfram's Willehalm (page 202)
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8. THE WITNESS OF CHAUCER (page 211)
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9. LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN SHAKESPEARE (page 228)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (page 231)
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As You Like It (page 236)
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The Merchant of Venice (page 239)
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Romeo and Juliet (page 242)
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10. THE CHURCH PORCH: MARRIAGE AND ARCHITECTURE (page 248)
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11. TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF MARRIAGE (page 258)
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Heloise (page 259)
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Three Popes: Adrian IV, Alexander III, and Innocent III (page 264)
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Wolfram von Eschenbach (page 270)
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The Capetian Kings (page 272)
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Marriage as Sacrament: Hugh of St Victor (page 173)
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Jan Van Eyck (page 280)
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Bibliographical References (page 287 )
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Index (page 313 )
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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SP | 67.2 (Apr. 1992): 383 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28199204%2967%3A2%3C383%3ATMIOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X |
AHR | 96.2 (Apr. 1991): 489 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199104%2996%3A2%3C489%3ATMIOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C |
ENHR | 108.426 (Jan. 1993): 176-177 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199301%29108%3A426%3C176%3ATMIOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |
HEQ | 31.1 (Spring 1991): 113-116 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2680%28199121%2931%3A1%3C113%3ATMIOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y |
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Published: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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