Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London

Description: An introduction, seven chapters, and a conclusion study marriage in London in the second half of the fifteenth century. The "fundamental argument is that bonds of marriage and sex were . . . intimate, deeply personal ties and matters of public concern, subject to intervention by everyone from a woman's or man's family, friends, and employers to the mayor of London himself." Chapter 5 mentions briefly that Walter weds Griselda in ClT by ambiguous words with only one witness in a suspect bedchamber contract. Chapter 6 mentions that, despite the depiction of the summoner in FrT, "there is little evidence of . . . church-police figures" in fifteenth-century London.