Affections of the mind [electronic resource] : the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval English literature / Emma Lipton.
Publication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.Description: x, 246 pISBN:- 9780268034054 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0268034052 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- Marriage in literature
- Marriage -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Marriage -- Religious aspects
- Authority in literature
- Social values in literature
- Social groups in literature
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
- 820.9/3543 22
- PR275.M3 L57 2007eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.
Introduction: the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval culture -- Married friendship : an ideology for the franklin -- Public voice, private life: marriage and masculinity in John Gower's Trait�e -- Performing reform : marriage, lay piety, and sacramental theater in the N-town Mary plays -- The marriage of love and sex : Margery Kempe and bourgeois lay identity.
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