All the King's Women : Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900-1250

"Polygyny, in Europe? The grand narrative of Western history is the development of monogamous marriage, culminating in the central Middle Ages. Other kinds of relationships have often, perhaps too lightly, been dismissed as 'just lust'. In this book, Jan Rüdiger investigates the plurality of man-woman relationships in medieval Scandinavia and analyses the social and political 'uses' of elite polygyny. By way of comparison the findings from the North are then applied to England, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, in order to propose a new overall image of elite polygyny, including marriage, in the medieval West"--

שנה

2020

שפה

English

הוצאה

BRILL

מהדורות

1

עמודים

452

ISBN

9789004349513

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata