{"product_id":"medieval-marriage-9780859915120","title":"Medieval Marriage","description":"\u003cb\u003eEvidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 of texts linked together by English manuscripts -the `AB'-Group, containing the \u003ci\u003eAncrene Wisse; The Owl and the Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e and its companion-pieces; and finally the \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e of St Christina of Markyate and the \u003ci\u003eChanson de Saint Alexis\u003c\/i\u003ewhich she once owned. The author demonstrates the continuity of these texts in their attitude towards marriage, along with continental works such as the letters of Abelard and Heloise, and Chrétien de Troyes' \u003ci\u003eErec et Enide\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout, the volume clearly and accessibly shows how the imaginative literature of the period participated in the evolution of a new and enduring ideology of marriage.\u003cbr\u003eDr \u003ci\u003eNEIL CARTLIDGE\u003c\/i\u003eis a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.","brand":"Neil M R Cartlidge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280278827259,"sku":"9780859915120","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859915120.jpg?v=1772483209","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/medieval-marriage-9780859915120","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}