Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook

by McCarthy,Conor; McCarthy,Conor

• ISBN13: 9780415307451
• ISBN10: 0415307457
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This sourcebook is a compilation of primary source material on the longstanding topics of love, sex, and marriage. Chronologically it covers the entire Middle Ages, from the Church fathers in the 4th century to writings drawn from the 15th and 16th centuries. While the heart of the book is in medieval England, it does cover the rest of Europe. Sources are drawn from ecclesiastical wrings, legal sources, personal writing, and medical writings. All of the source material is translated into modern English and there is a comprehensive general introduction and as well as introductions to the individual sections and extracts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Permissions	xi
Introduction	1	(24)
PART I Ecclesiastical Sources	25	(68)
Introduction	27	(2)
The Church Fathers	29	(15)
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions	29	(1)
Augustine of Hippo, The Excellence of Marriage	30	(4)
Augustine of Hippo, Holy Virginity	34	(1)
Augustine of Hippo, The Excellence of Widowhood	35	(1)
Augustine of Hippo, The City of God	36	(5)
Jerome, Against Jovinian	41	(3)
Anglo-Saxon England	44	(17)
The Penitential of Theodore	44	(9)
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People	53	(7)
The Law of the Northumbrian Priests	60	(1)
Theology and Canon Law	61	(22)
Gratian, Decretum	61	(1)
Peter Lombard, Sentences	62	(1)
Decretals of Gregory IX	63	(1)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae	64	(4)
The Fourth Lateran Council	68	(4)
English Ecclesiastical Statutes	72	(11)
Canon Law and Actual Practice	83	(10)
Late Medieval Marriage Vows	83	(1)
An Ecclesiastical Court Case from the Province of Canterbury	83	(5)
Two Cases from an Episcopal Visitation of Canterbury Diocese	88	(1)
A Rural Dean's Court	89	(4)
PART II Legal Sources	93	(36)
Introduction	95	(2)
Anglo-Saxon Law	97	(11)
Laws of Æthelbert of Kent	97	(2)
Laws of Ine of Wessex	99	(1)
Laws of King Alfred	100	(2)
Laws of King Canute	102	(3)
Concerning the Betrothal of a Woman	105	(1)
Old English Marriage Agreements	106	(2)
Norman Law	108	(21)
Coronation Charter of Henry I	108	(1)
Magna Carta	109	(1)
Statutes of Westminster I	110	(1)
Statutes of Westminster II	110	(2)
Glanvill	112	(3)
Bracton	115	(6)
Britton	121	(1)
English Customary Laws	121	(2)
Cases from the Manorial Courts	123	(3)
The Case of John/Eleanor Rykener	126	(3)
PART III Letters, Chronicles, Biography, Conduct Books	129	(34)
Introduction	131	(3)
Saints' Lives and Female Religious Writings	134	(12)
The Life of Christina of Markyate	134	(3)
The Life of Mary of Oignies	137	(1)
Jacques de Vitry
St Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden, Liber Celestis	138	(1)
The Book of Margery Kempe	139	(7)
Letters	146	(6)
Letters of Abelard and Heloise	146	(3)
The Paston Letters	149	(3)
Chronicles	152	(5)
Chronicle of Richard of Devizes	152	(1)
The History and Topography of Ireland	153	(2)
Giraldus Cambrensis
Annals of the Friars Minor of Colmar	155	(1)
Chronicles	156	(1)
Jean Froissart
Conduct Books	157	(6)
Holy Virginity (Hali Meiδhad)	159	(1)
Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry	159	(1)
The Menagier of Paris, Manual for his Wife	160	(3)
PART IV Literary Sources	163	(92)
Introduction	165	(2)
Old English Literature	167	(7)
Beowulf	167	(1)
The Wife's Lament	168	(1)
The Husband's Message	169	(2)
Wulf and Eadwacer	171	(1)
Riddles 25, 44, 45	172	(1)
Judith	173	(1)
Latin Literature	174	(9)
De Amore	174	(3)
Andreas Capellanus
Alan of Lille, The Plaint of Nature	177	(2)
De Coniuge Non Ducenda	179	(4)
Old French Literature	183	(25)
Livre de Manieres	183	(1)
Etienne de Fougeres
Yonec	184	(7)
Marie de France
The Romance of the Rose	191	(4)
Guillaume de Lorris
Jean de Meun
The Peasant from Bailleul	195	(3)
Jean Bodel
The Tale of Griselda	198	(5)
Christine de Pizan
The Debate on the Rose	203	(3)
Gargantua and Pantagruel	206	(2)
Francois Rabelais
Middle English Literature	208	(47)
Middle English Lyrics	208	(2)
In the Ecclesiastical Court	210	(3)
The Owl and the Nightingale	213	(2)
Cleanness	215	(1)
Confessio Amantis	216	(3)
John Gower
Portrait of the Pardoner	219	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wife of Bath's Prologue	220	(21)
Geoffrey Chaucer
`Envoy a Bukton'	241	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Piers Plowman	242	(3)
William Langland
Ballad of the Tyrannical Husband	245	(4)
Letter of Cupid	249	(1)
Thomas Hoccleve
Upon the Midsummer's Eve, Merriest of Nights	250	(5)
William Dunbar
PART V Medical Writings	255	(19)
Introduction	257	(2)
Medical Writings on Women's Health	259	(7)
Trotula	259	(3)
De Secretis Mulierum	262	(4)
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
Medical Writings on Love	266	(8)
Avicenna, A Treatise on Love	266	(2)
Constantine Africanus, Viaticum	268	(1)
Gerard of Berry, Glosses on the Viaticum	269	(1)
Peter of Spain, Questions on the Viaticum (Version A)	270	(1)
Treatise on the Viaticum	271	(1)
Bona Fortuna
The Knight's Tale	272	(2)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Bibliography	274	(11)
Index	285