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The Laws about Weddings in Viking-Age Gotland

Medievalists.net — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:47:39 +0000

An important source about daily-life in Viking-Age Scandinavia is Guta Lag, a set of laws from the Swedish island of Gotland. This includes details on how weddings were to be conducted.

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‘Que lo lean literalmente’: Clerical Ignorance and a Late Medieval Wedding Ceremony

Medievalists.net — Sun, 10 May 2015 02:24:51 +0000

There is ample evidence that in late-medieval Spain a vast number of priests charged with carrying out the Church's everyday liturgical responsibilities were undereducated and had little or no capacity in that language.

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How Significant Were Perceptions Of Marital Fidelity As An Aspect Of Kingship In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries?

Medievalists.net — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:19:58 +0000

This paper, concentrating on the above mentioned monarchs, will argue that marital fidelity, whilst no means encouraged as a form of acceptable behaviour, was rarely used to criticise the kings of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and played little part in perceptions of their rule.

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Incest in Early Medieval Society

Medievalists.net — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:54:23 +0000

The question of what persons and why can have sexual relations with each other and consequently, can contract marriage, is of basic importance for the functioning of every society, irrespective of time, place and the degree of the society’s development.

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Scattered voices: Anthonis de Roovere and other reporters of the wedding of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York

Medievalists.net — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:33:25 +0000

Both sources are of great value for those who study the Bruges wedding, with the impact it had on its contemporaries, and the way in which our present-day picture of it came about.

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Intersex in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:25:46 +0000

A brief look at how the medieval world viewed the Intersex individual.

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In Pursuit of Aristocratic Women: A Key to Success in Norman England

Medievalists.net — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:36:52 +0000

Discussion of marital strategies of the aristocracy in England, 1066-1154, including recruitment through marriage, marital alliances, and political advantage.

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Marital Affection and Expectations in a 14th-Century Parisian Court

Medievalists.net — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:43:50 +0000

I argue that the women in fourteenth-century Paris expected affection, or at least a lack of hatred, within their marriages.

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Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History

Medievalists.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000

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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Raymund’s Daughter’s Divorce in the 9th-Century: a Woman’s Textual Role in the Breaking of an Alliance

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:57:39 +0000

This chapter will analyse an aspect of one of the divorce cases of the mid 9th century: I review its links with politics of the day and reconsider the roles given to wife and husband in the only text that deals with this case...

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