1. Sex and MarriageSex and Marriage

2. Family structures after c. 1000  Primogeniture – first born male inherits the bulk of his father’s land and property  R.I. Moore – shift from ‘a society of plunder to a society of property.’  More than 1/3 of all nunneries in France and England during the middle ages were founded between 1126 and 1175.  Church restrictions on incestuous marriages. Redefines consanguinity. Lateran Councils of 1059 and 1215.

3. Marriage  Gratian (canon lawyer, author of the Decretum )  Peter Lombard (author of the theological textbook the Sentences )  Declaration of present consent  Solemnization of marriage  Banns  Problems: abduction, marriage against will, unclear promises

4. Attitudes to marriageAttitudes to marriage  Benedictine account of life of Countess Ida of Boulogne (written in 1130s)  Benedictine account of life of St Godelive (written in 1084). Her husband is Bertulf.  Chaucer’s characters. Custance in ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’. Emily from ‘The Knight’s Tale’.  Guibert of Nogent’s mother.

8. Childbirth  Midwives  Need for baptism.  Limbo.  Power of the family: the importance of godparents.  Foundling hospitals.

11. Love  French historian, Georges Duby  Count Baldwin VI of Guînes

12. Attitudes to womenAttitudes to women  Based on letters of St Paul  Medical theorists: Aristotle and Galen  Restriction of freedom of movement  Problem of gossip

15. Some famous medieval women  Heloise. Hildegard of Bingen. Christine de Pizan. St Bridget.