the making of modern marriage in medieval France /
Georges Duby ; translated by Barbara Bray.
1st American ed.
New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1983]
xx, 311 pages ;
24 cm
Translation of: Le chevalier, la femme et le prêtre.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The marriages of King Philip I -- Moral values : priests and knights -- Marriage according to Bourchard -- Robert the pious -- Princes and knights -- The heretics -- The lives of the saints, male and female -- Guibert of Nogent -- Yves of Chartres -- The royal family -- Literature -- The lords of Amboise -- The counts of Guines.
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"Until the Middle Ages, a king could marry his first cousin, a priest could have a wife and several concubines, and a nobleman could banish a wife if she didn't produce a son. Marriage was an instrument of control in the hands of kings and noblemen, who used it to keep their power intact; to gain land, wealth, and authority; and to bind women to the partiarchal system."