Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

Author / Editor
Brundage, James A.

Title
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

Published
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Physical Description
xxiv, 674 pp.

Description
An exhaustive study of sexual practices and attitudes (both "official" and "popular") and the attempted regulation of sex and marriage under canon law. Chapter 10 deals with the period from 1348 to the Reformation.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.