Love, Sex & Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook - Paperback

by Conor McCarthy (Editor)

This updated edition collects an extensive range of evidence for how people in the European Middle Ages thought about the emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage.

Author Biography

Conor McCarthy is Director of Philanthropy at the National Library of Australia. He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice (2004), Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry (2008), and Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature (2020).