Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages

by Georges Duby

Book Overview

Preeminent medieval scholar Georges Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism--both bastions of masculinity--as he reveals the role of women, what they represented, and what they were in the Middle Ages.

Beautifully written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is an ideal entree into Duby's thinking about marriage and the diversities of love, spousal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226167747
• ISBN13: 9780226167749
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"