This updated edition collects an extensive range of evidence for how people in the European Middle Ages thought about the emotional state of love, the physical

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages, Duby shows the Middle Ages to be male-dominated. Women were regarded

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