The Making of Marriage in Medieval France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Mcdougall (0000-0001-8961-1630, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-121 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199013484680 |
| OpenAlex | W2017406388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Georges Duby described medieval, Catholic marriage as the product of two competing groups of people, clergy and nobles, each with their own conflicting ideas of marriage. Clergy wanted indissoluble and monogamous marriage, while nobles wanted to divorce and remarry at will. This widely influential idea of marriage is extremely misleading. Clergy and nobles did not comprise distinct and competing camps, nor did they have opposing ideas of marriage. Instead, together, as members of the powerful families that dominated medieval Europe, these men and women created and implemented Christian marriage as monogamous and indissoluble. Using as a case study the scandalous marriage of a twelfth-century abbess, this article will demonstrate the flaws in Duby’s argument, and also we can learn about medieval marriage, and medieval society more broadly, by applying this new approach
Genealogy · Sociology · Western europe · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Medicine · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval Literature and History
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |