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Sex and Marriage

Sex and Marriage. Family structures after c. 1000. Primogeniture – first born male inherits the bulk of his father’s land and property R.I. Moore – shift from ‘a society of plunder to a society of property.’

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Sex and Marriage

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  1. Sex and Marriage

  2. Family structures after c. 1000 Primogeniture – first born male inherits the bulk of his father’s land and property R.I. Moore – shift from ‘a society of plunder to a society of property.’ More than 1/3 of all nunneries in France and England during the middle ages were founded between 1126 and 1175. Church restrictions on incestuous marriages. Redefines consanguinity. Lateran Councils of 1059 and 1215.

  3. Marriage Gratian (canon lawyer, author of the Decretum) Peter Lombard (author of the theological textbook the Sentences) Declaration of present consent Solemnization of marriage Banns Problems: abduction, marriage against will, unclear promises

  4. Attitudes to marriage Benedictine account of life of Countess Ida of Boulogne (written in 1130s) Benedictine account of life of St Godelive (written in 1084). Her husband is Bertulf. Chaucer’s characters. Custance in ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’. Emily from ‘The Knight’s Tale’. Guibert of Nogent’s mother.

  5. Childbirth Midwives Need for baptism. Limbo. Power of the family: the importance of godparents. Foundling hospitals.

  6. Love French historian, Georges Duby Count Baldwin VI of Guînes

  7. Attitudes to women Based on letters of St Paul Medical theorists: Aristotle and Galen Restriction of freedom of movement Problem of gossip

  8. Some famous medieval women Heloise. Hildegard of Bingen. Christine de Pizan. St Bridget.

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