All the king's women : polygyny and politics in Europe, 900-1250


by Jan Rüdiger ; translated by Tim Barnwell
Bok Engelsk 2020 Jan Rüdiger
Originaltittel
Medvirkende
Omfang
XI, 452 sider
Opplysninger
"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"--
Emner
Geografisk emneord
Europe - Kings and rulers - Sexual behavior - History . - England : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03184. - Europa . - Frankrike : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02240. - Portugal : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03047. - Skandinavia : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03681. - Spania : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03121
Dewey
ISBN
978-90-04-34951-3. - 9789004349513

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