Unmarriages by Ruth Mazo Karras PAPERBACK 9780812222982

Unmarriages\nby Ruth Mazo Karras\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ruth Mazo Karras\nTitle: Unmarriages\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812222982\nISBN-10: 0812222989\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. Social norms militated against the marriage of master to slave or between individuals of very different classes, o.