All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250
Seiten
2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-34951-3 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-34951-3 (ISBN)
In All the King’s Women Jan Rüdiger investigates medieval elite polygyny and its ‘uses’ in Northern Europe with a comparative perspective on England and France as well as Iberia.
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.
See inside the book.
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.
See inside the book.
Jan Rüdiger, Dr.phil. (Basel 1998), Habil. (Berlin 2007), is Professor of General Medieval History at the University of Basel. He has published a monograph on 12th-century Occitania and numerous articles on linguistic and political cultures in medieval Europe.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Northern World ; 88 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 812 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-34951-0 / 9004349510 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-34951-3 / 9789004349513 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
eine neue Geschichte des Mittelalters
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 53,20
