Van Houts Elisabeth. Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

Oxford University Press, 2019. — 320 p.Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions.Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor in European Medieval History, University of Cambridge. Elisabeth van Houts was born in the Netherlands. She received her doctorate from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in 1982. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Cambridge where she teaches medieval history,and has been a Fellow of Emmanuel College since 1997. The University of Cambridge awarded her a DLitt (a higher doctorate) in 2001 and the title of Honorary Professor in European Medieval History in 2011. Van Houts has published widely on Anglo-Norman history, the history of women and gender, and medieval historiography and memory.