Marriage in Medieval England
Marriage in Medieval England

Author: Conor McCarthy

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781843831020

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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 and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts, including Beowulf, the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters. Focusing on a number of key themes important across the period, individual chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love, sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England

Author: Tim Thornton

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781843832591

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Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.