Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 452 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004434578
,
9789004349513
Series Statement:
The northern world volume 88
Uniform Title:
Der König und seine Frauen. Polygynie und politische Kultur in Europa (9.–13. Jahrhundert)
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rüdiger, Jan, 1966 - All the king's women Leiden : Brill, 2020 ISBN 9789004349513
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
;
Herrscher
;
Polygamie
;
Geschichte 900-1250
DOI:
10.1163/9789004434578
Author information:
Rüdiger, Jan 1966-
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