Title Affections of the mind : the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval English literature / Emma Lipton

Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) Contents Introduction: the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval culture -- Married friendship : an ideology for the franklin -- Public voice, private life: marriage and masculinity in John Gower's Traité -- Performing reform : marriage, lay piety, and sacramental theater in the N-town Mary plays -- The marriage of love and sex : Margery Kempe and bourgeois lay identity Summary 'Affections of the Mind' argues that a politicised negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hierachy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Marriage in literature. Marriage -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500 Marriage -- Religious aspects. Authority in literature. Social values in literature. Social groups in literature. Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500 LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. Authority in literature English literature -- Middle English Literature and society Marriage in literature Marriage -- Religious aspects Social groups in literature Social values in literature Literatur Ehe Motiv Sakrament Motiv England Mittelenglisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007020098 ISBN 0268085722 9780268085728 0268085897 9780268085896

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