All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250 / Jan Rüdiger.
All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789004434578 (electronic book)
9789004349513 (print)
9789004349513 (print)
Yer Numarası
DK/6223
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
The Northern World ; 88
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
History.
