Medievalists.net » Cycle Plays http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/love-marriage-medieval-english-stage-using-english-cycle-plays-sources-social-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/love-marriage-medieval-english-stage-using-english-cycle-plays-sources-social-history/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54583 Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s.

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