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Article: Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Neil Cartlidge, Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). xii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-85991-512-3. 39.50 [pounds sterling].
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a crucial period in the formation of western Christian marriage. In theology, canon law, and liturgy, these centuries saw the institution take a shape that would retain its contours well beyond the Reformation. In Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300, Neil Cartlidge adds to the broad cultural history of Christian marriage in this formative period and provides important literary-historical antecedents for the better-known interest of later medieval ...
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