A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief

Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of d

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the stud

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

This book tells one part of the long history of the institution of marriage. Questions concerning the formation and annulment of marriage came under the exclusi