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Christopher N. L. Brooke. 
The Medieval Idea of Marriage.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
ISBN 0198217773;
ISBN-13: 9780198217770.
Hardback, stitch bound.
Printed by the Alden Press, Oxford.
142x222x23mm.
xviii,325pp plus 8 pages of monochrome plates. 
English.
Good condition: a little wear to the dustjacket, page edges slightly grubby, text appears to be free of marking. 

This item £25.00 
[Publisher's price £62.00]
560g. 

Contents: Approaches; The inheritance, Christian & Roman; Cult of celibacy in the 11th & 12th centuries; Correspondence of Heloise & Abelard; Marriage of Heloise & Abelard; Marriage in law & practice; The use of literary evidence for the history of marriage - Wolfram von Eschenbach; The witness of Chaucer; Love & marriage in Shakespeare; The church porch - marriage & architecture; Towards a theology of marriage. 

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