All the King’s Women

Book Author

Jan Rüdiger

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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. See inside the book.

Additional information

Book Author

Jan Rüdiger

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9789004434578

Language

English

Pages

977

Publication Date

09-25-2020

Publisher

BRILL

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