I. Foundations and Influences
1. The Biblical Foundations
2. The Germanic Foundations
3. Theological Foundations: Augustine, On the Good of Marriage
4. Theological Foundations: Augustine on Marriage as a Social Institution
5. Legal Foundations: The Burgundian Laws
6. Legal Foundations: Anglo-Saxon Laws
7. Pastoral Foundations: The Penitential of Theodore
II. Love and its Dangers
8. A Biblical Celebration of Love
9. The Biblical Regulation of Sexual Behavior
10. The Marriage of Thorstein and Spes
11. Charlemagne's Daughter and Her Lover
12. The Ideology of Courtly Love
13. Troubadour Love Poetry
14. Goliardic Love Songs
15. Vernacular Love Songs
16. Adulterous Love: The Story of Equitan
17. A Debate about Love and Marriage: The Owl and the Nightingale
18. Abelard and Heloise
19. Paolo and Francesca
20. Edward III's Love for the Countess of Salisbury (1342)
21. The Paston Family on Love and Marriage
22. Prosecutions and Punishments for Sexual Misconduct
III. Marriage and the Church
23. The Theology of Marriage: Peter Lombard's Sentences
24. A Woman's View of Marriage: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias
25. The Good of Marriage: Etienne de Fourgères
26. Ecclesiastical Legislation: the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
27. Episcopal Legislation: the Statutes of Salisbury (1217-19)
28. The Parish Priest and the Rules of Marriage
29. How to Dissolve a Marriage
30. Marriage Litigation in Fifteenth-Century London
IV. Marriage Ceremonies, Rituals, and Customs
31. Pope Nicholas's Letter to a Bulgarian King (866)
32. The Legend of St. Nicholas and the Three Dowries
33. A Bad Courtship and a Good: Ruodlieb
34. The Liturgy of Marriage
35. Popular Customs and Marriage Celebrations
V. Husbands and Wives
36. An Early Christian View of Husbands and Wives
37. Tertullian: To His Wife (ca. 200)
38. An Anti-matrimonial Diatribe
39. A Grieving Husband: The Death of Einhard's Emma
40. The Marriage of Guibert of Nogent's Parents
41. Cautionary Tales
42. A Sermon on the Ideal Husband
43. A Popular View of Marriage: The Vision of Piers the Plowman
44. Saint Bernardino on Marriage
45. The Fifteen Joys of Marriage
VI. Marriage and Family
46. Marriage Among the Franks
47. Counting Families in the Ninth Century
48. Spiritual Marriages
49. A Rebellious Wife
50. An Unhappy Marriage: Godelive of Ghistelle
51. A Lord Asserts his Rights: Gerald of Aurillac
52. Duplicitous Wives and Illegitimate Heirs
53. The Legitimation of Children
54. Feudal Marriage
55. A Fraudulent Marriage Agreement (1280)
56. Marriage Cases in Village Courts
57. Housing and Households
58. Domestic Violence
VII. Childbirth
59. Gregory the Great on Sex, Childbirth, and Purity
60. A Medical Discussion of Childbirth
61. Description of a Birthing Chamber
62. Prayers for Women in Childbirth
63. Rejoicing for a Safe Delivery
VIII. Parents and Children
64. Biblical Advice on Parent/Child Relations
65. Jerome on the Education of Girls
66. Frankish Parents' Grief
67. An Unhappy Childhood: Guibert of Nogent
68. The Ideals of Childhood
69. Intrafamilial Conflict
70. Parents, Children, and Child-rearing
71. A Happy Childhood: Jean Froissart
72. The Instruction of Children
73. The Care of Orphans
IX. Beyond Christendom
74. Laws Regulating Contact Between Jews, Muslims, and Christians
75. Marriage Cases in the Jewish Community
76. A Jewish Merchant's Letter
77. A Jewish Father's Advice: Eleazar of Mainz
78. Islamic Teaching on Marriage and the Family
79. Christian Misunderstanding of Islamic Teachings on Marriage
80. The Cathar's Rejection of Marriage
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