The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law
- Author / Editor
- Makowski, Elizabeth M.
The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law
- Published
- Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 129-43.
- Description
- Discusses canonical doctrine about sexual relations in marriage as it was understood between the twelfth and mid-fourteenth centuries--an era in which scientific jurisprudence came of age. Makowski focuses on the concept of conjugal debt, referring briefly to the Wife of Bath.
- Alternative Title
- Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.