The Medieval Idea of Marriage
by Christopher N.L. Brooke
- The Medieval Idea of Marriage
Christopher N.L. Brooke - Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989 - xviii + 325 pp.
‘There’s more to marriage’, said the old proverb, 'than four bare legs in a bed.' But what, precisely, was very much a live issue in the years around 1100. Was the essence of the union to he sought in consummation, or was it primarily a matter of words and intentions? In either case, what role was to he played by kinsfolk and neighbours? Where did the Church come in? And on what grounds, if any, could the union be dissolved?
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