The medieval marriage scene
Subtitle: prudence, passion, policy
By: edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins.
Contributors: Roush, Sherry.; Baskins, Cristelle Louise.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ;; v 299; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ;; 299.
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tempe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780866983433
Subjects: Marriage -- Europe -- History; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
Description: "Discusses the latest research on medieval marriage, family, and related topics from the perspectives of literature, history, art history, law, religious studies, and economics, in multiple contexts from London to Valencia to the Levant"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conference papers.
Table of contents: title: Medieval Jewish models of marriage / Judith R. Baskin; title: At marriage end : Girolamo Savonarola and the question of widows in late fifteenth-century Florence / Konrad Eisenbichler; title: Lollardy and the integrity of marriage and the family / Dyan Elliott; title: Germanic marriage : the case of Medieval Iceland / Jenny Jochens; title: The many loves of Philip Augustus / John W. Baldwin; title: Scenes from a marriage : hospitality and commerce in Boccaccio's Tale of Saladin and Torello / Cristelle L. Baskins; title: Women talking about marriage in William Dunbar and Hans Sachs / Priscilla Bawcutt; title: The old and the feckless : Fabliau husbands / Elizabeth W. Poe; title: The dilemma of the widow of property for late medieval London / Barbara A. Hanawalt; title: Counsel and consent : preparing for marriage litigation according to the fourteenth-century York cause papers / Frederik Pedersen; title: Marriage gifts and fashion mischief / Susan Mosher Stuard; title: Tecla Servent and her two husbands / Ronald E. Surtz.