Contextualizing marriage: conjugality and Christian life in Jonas of Orléans'De institutione laicali
Francesco M. Veronese
The De institutione laicali by Jonas of Orleans has frequently been examined as a source for conjugal life in the Carolingian period, but rarely analysed its entirety. In this article I propose an overall reading text, based on version addressed to Count Matfrid before 828, order place chapters about marriage their context. will formulate new interpretations purposes – arguing that Book II was configured speculum comitale and Jonas's view marriage. therefore be shown have served needs representations society public power.
Early Medieval Europe