Chapter Eight: The Family and Social Trends
814-1350: Chapter Eight: The Family and Social Trends
by JACQUELINE MURRAY
CONTENTS
TOPICS IN THE FAMILY AND SOCIAL TRENDS
Ancestry and Kinship: Household Structures 310
Ancestry and Kinship: Lineage and Inheritance 311
Economic Partnership in Marriage 315
A Medieval Wife’s Status 317
Marriage: Impediments to Christian Unions 319
Degrees of Relationship 321
Marriage: Secret and Clandestine Unions 324
The Wedding Ceremony 327
The Marriage of Bertolf and Godelieve 329
The Marriage of Lothair and Theutberga 330
The Marriage of Philip I and Bertha 333
The Impediment of Consanguinity 333
The Marriage of Philip Augustus and Ingeborg 334
The Marriage Relationship: Sexuality and the Church 335
The Marriage Relationship: Sexuality and Medicine 336
The Marriage Relationship: Sexuality and Society 337
Married Life: Birth Control 338
Married Life: Childbirth and Baptism 339
Prayers for Women in Childbirth 340
Married Life: Child Rearing and Parental Affection 343
Married Life: Children and Stepchildren 346
Dhuoda’s Advice 347
Training Children for Adulthood 349
Training Children for Work: Apprenticeships 350