Strategies of Passion Love and Marriage in Medieval Iceland and Norway

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9782503521633
  • 24 november 2005
  • 359 pagina's
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This book is concerned with the social and gendered meanings of love in medieval Norway and Iceland. In the Viking Age, to love would most often imply a submissive social position, while being loved by a woman could elevate a man above the status of her family. Women were supposed to love upwards in the social hierarchy, but could also use their desire to negotiate the social position of men. A close reading of the skaldic poetry shows the dilemma men faced when longing for women's love and approval. These ideas of love relations shaped Norse interpretations of courtly love and marriage formation by consent in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. However, new ideas of sexuality, gender and aristocratic culture changed several aspects of love and marital affection in the later Middle Ages. Men became the loving subject, but in a way that did not challenge the social order. For women, ideal love was attached to humility and submission to parents and husband. But even though the new ideology of love and marriage to some extent neutralized the tensions between consent and parental control, the sources show that both men and women could use the new conceptions of love to serve their own marital and social strategies.

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Hardcover
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24 november 2005
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359
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Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Bjorn Bandlien
Hoofduitgeverij
Brepols N.V.

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Originele titel
Strategies of Passion: Love and Marriage in Old Norse Society

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167 mm
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26 mm
Verpakking lengte
249 mm
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757 g

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9782503521633

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