Affections of the mind : the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval English literature /
'Affections of the Mind' argues that a politicised negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hier...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2007. |
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| Retention: | digitized |
| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval culture
- Married friendship : an ideology for the franklin
- Public voice, private life: marriage and masculinity in John Gower's Traité
- Performing reform : marriage, lay piety, and sacramental theater in the N-town Mary plays
- The marriage of love and sex : Margery Kempe and bourgeois lay identity.