Preeminent medieval scholar Georges Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism-both bastions of masculinity-as he reveals the role of women, what they represented, and what they were in the Middle Ages. Beautifully...
Preeminent medieval scholar Georges Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism--both bastions of masculinity--as he reveals the role of women, what they represented, and what they were in the Middle Ages. Beautifully...
A collection of 16 essays written between 1967 and 1986 examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages. In the first part of the book Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism,...