All the king's women : polygyny and politics in Europe, 900-1250

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Title
"All the king's women : polygyny and politics in Europe, 900-1250"
Statement of Responsibility
by Jan Rüdiger ; translated by Tim Barnwell
Publisher
  • Brill
Publication Year
  • c2020
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback
Other Title
  • König und seine Frauen

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-447) and index

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

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