Incest and the Medieval Imagination by Elizabeth Archibald

Incest and the Medieval Imagination

Elizabeth Archibald

312 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Incest was a social problem in the Middle Ages, and also a popular literary theme. This wide-ranging study is the first survey of medieval incest stories in their cultural context. Did they reflect real life situations? How was incest defined in t...

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