Article: Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300.(Review)

Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300. By NEIL CARTLIDGE. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. xii + 250 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]; $69.

Literary representations of marriage in early medieval England, Neil Cartlidge proposes, demonstrate a sophisticated interest in the affective nature of the marriage bond, reflecting the 'idealism and subtlety with which western society gradually defined a coherent, optimistic and abiding ideology of marriage in this period' (p. 1). Cartlidge argues for a confluence of 'the literary ethos of love', canon law, and theology, rather than the oppositions between courtly love and marriage most influentially propounded by C. S. Lewis, ...

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