Love, marriage, and family ties in the later Middle Ages [Leeds International Medieval Congress (2001)

This volume addresses the current fashion for research on the family and domesticity in the past. It draws together work from various disciplines - historical, art-historical and literary - with their very different source materials and from a broad geographical area, including some countries - such as Croatia and Poland - which are not usually considered in standard text books on the medieval family. This volume considers the various affective relationships within and around the family and the manner in which those relationships were regulated and ritualized in more public arenas. Despite their disparate approaches and geographical spread, these essays share many thematic concerns; the ideologies which structured gender roles, inheritance rights, incest law and the ethics of domestic violence, for example, are all considered here. This collection originates from the Leeds IMC in 2001 when the special strand was entitled Domus and Familia and attracted huge participation. This book aims to reflect that richness and variety whilst contributing to an expanding area of historical enquiry. Preliminaries 1 Contents -1 Preface -1 Introduction Unfamiliar Families -1 The Properties of Marriage in Late Medieval Europe -1 Gender Roles and the Marriage Market in Fifteenth Century -1 Incestuous Marriages Formal Rules and Social Practice -1 Pictures and Poems of Courtly Love and Bourgeois Marriage -1 Preface to Section Shifting Horizons of Expectation The Late Medieval Family -1 We are broderen Fraternal Bonds and Familial Loyalty -1 Brotherly Love and Brotherly Service -1 Aspekte der Mutter und Tochter Beziehung -1 Mélusine Ideal Mother or Inimitable Monster -1 Women Family and Inheritance in Bologna during the Black Death -1 Godparenthood Kinship and Piety -1 Vengeance Is Ours The Involvement of Kin in the Settlement -1 Keeping It in the Family -1 Not Just a Family Affair Domestic Violence -1 Conflict Strife and Cooperation -1 Illicit Love in Medieval Slavonian Cities -1