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This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the thirteenth centuryare presented, building on the author's Medieval Marriage Sermons. In marriage preaching symbolism was central. Marriage symbolism also became a social f...

Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages. In this edition of marriage sermons, David D'Avray reveals what famous preachers had to say about marriage. His study teases out the close connection between marriage symbolism and social, cultural, and legal realities in the thirteenth century.

In a chronological and geographical study of royal divorce cases from the Middle Ages through to the Reformation, d'Avray offers a truly comparative perspective on elite divorce, tracing its evolution over time, and providing original translations of documents which illuminate the canon law arguments on which the cases were built.

Medieval Marriage shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. Building on d'Avray's Medieval Marriage Sermons, it broadens the scope of the argument and works from a wide range of manuscript sources of different genres.

This book surveys royal marriage cases to explore how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations.

This comprehensive survey of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explores how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations. It seeks to unveil a rationale for papal involvement in royal marriages and to show the significance of the relationship between the church, royalty and marriage.

This book offers a chronological and geographical study of royal divorce cases from the Middle Ages through to the Reformation period.