Marriage in Medieval England : Law, Literature, and Practice
- Author / Editor
- McCarthy, Conor.
Marriage in Medieval England : Law, Literature, and Practice
- Published
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell, 2004.
- Physical Description
- [viii], 185 pp.
- Description
- McCarthy explores how marriage is represented in medieval English literary and legal texts and the "relationship of these representations to actual practice." Subjects range from Beowulf and Old English laws to late medieval ecclesiastical statutes and the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, including such topics as marital consent, property rights, love and sex, the family, and more. McCarthy comments on LGW and portions of CT, especially KnT, WBP, MerT, FranT, and ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.