Works of the Flesh. Intimate Life of People in the Middle Ages in the Space of Judicial Polemics
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Works of the Flesh. Intimate Life of People in the Middle Ages in the Space of Judicial Polemics
19.99 €
This book reveals what historical sources usually keep silent about - the private lives of people of the Middle Ages and early modern times, their personal experiences, marital love and adultery, unrequited feelings, friendships, grudges, and attempts to solve family problems on their own or with the help of official authorities. The heroes of the stories collected here are the most ordinary everyday people, who are almost never mentioned in chronicles, theological works, didactic treatises, or works of fiction. These people could only come to the historian's attention if they were involved in various crimes and the courts became interested in them. The materials of criminal investigations, which were conducted in the French kingdom for many centuries, allow us to partially penetrate into the innermost secrets of its inhabitants, to hear how and what they said about the most intimate moments of their lives, to learn what was acceptable for them to discuss in public and what was not, to understand what legal and general cultural ideas they were guided by.
The book is addressed to historians, legal scholars, philologists, cultural historians, and a wide range of readers interested in the history of everyday life and private life.
The book is addressed to historians, legal scholars, philologists, cultural historians, and a wide range of readers interested in the history of everyday life and private life.
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