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5 days ago · Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 is an important book for any scholar investigating marriage. While no one book can provide a completely comprehensive view of marriage in the medieval world, this one comes admirably close. The monograph spans 400 years and includes examples from all of these centuries.
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6 days ago · Michel Foucault famously described sodomy as an utterly confused category. The same could be said for marriage, especially during the Middle Ages, as the two studies under review demonstrate. Like sodomy, marriage is a category traversing several fields – law, culture, religion – that bites into people’s flesh.
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May 15, 2024 · The Renaissance is credited with bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and modern-day civilization. During the 14th century, a cultural movement called humanism began to gain momentum in Italy. Among its many principles, humanism promoted the idea that man was the center of his own universe, and people should embrace human achievements in ...
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May 20, 2024 · The history of marriage and how it is perceived today also changed significantly. Marriages occur in almost every society in the world. Over time, marriage has taken several forms, and history of marriage has evolved. Sweeping trends and shifts in the view and understanding of marriage over the years, such as polygamy to monogamy and same-sex ...
4 days ago · Despite this difference, Worby argues in chapter four, canon law ideas of kinship dominated in 13th- and 14th-century England. This is not to say, however, that canon law determined matters of inheritance, a legal context outside its remit. The parentelic system of common law kinship still applied (p. 68). But, the canon law kinship system was ...
May 17, 2024 · The early Christians had an interior liveliness and hope that transformed the world. A small group of men and women once set its principles of charity and temperance against the prevailing values of the age—and in so doing altered the course of civilization. Because the early Christians’ belief had a specific content of truth and morality ...
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