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Article: McSheffrey, Shannon: Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2007
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McSheffrey, Shannon Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 290 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-8122-3938-5 Publication Date: June 2006
In her recent study, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London, Shannon McSheffrey convincingly argues that the bonds created by marriage and sex were gendered, patriarchal, and intimately tied to the communal world of late medieval London. Drawing from ecclesiastical court and municipal records, and didactic religious and secular literature, McSheffrey reveals how private affairs of love, sex, and marriage were, for medieval people, matters of public concern. "My ...