All the king's women : : polygyny and politics in Europe, 900-1250 / / by Jan Rüdiger ; translated by Tim Barnwell.
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-woma...
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| Superior document: | The northern world ; Volume 88 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Northern world ;
Volume 88. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004434577 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Jan Rüdiger ; translated by Tim Barnwell. |