Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300
- ISBN 13:
9780198798897
- ISBN 10:
019879889X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/21/2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.