Marriage, Sex and Death
Emma Southon
By the end of fifth century, with structural collapse Roman Empire in west, Western Europe had fallen into so-called Dark Ages. With power Rome removed, Catholic Church stepped to fill void. Its political rise, alongside that Germanic kingdoms, led dramatic changes law, politics, power, and culture. Against backdrop upheaval, family became a vitally important area focus for cultural struggles related morality, tradition. This book explores those battles order demonstrate, through family, intersections between Christian legal culture, thought, power.
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