The Knight,the Lady And the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France: Making of Modern Marriage in Mediaeval France (Peregrine Books) - Softcover

Duby, Georges

 
9780140551433: The Knight,the Lady And the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France: Making of Modern Marriage in Mediaeval France (Peregrine Books)

Synopsis

This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects to life, making us feel as if we understand the motives and conflicts of those who inhabited the distant past.

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