Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300

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 ...