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Secondhand book for saleGeorges Duby; trans. Barbara Bray; intro. by Natalie Zemon Davis.
The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France.
Published London: Allen Lane, 1984 (previously published in USA 1983; original French edition was 1981).
ISBN 0713915838.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Bungay.
Size: 160×240×28mm.
Page count: xx,313pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy has some wear on its edges and corners, price-clipped on its front flyleaf; boards and spine have a little wear at the edges and corners; pages starting to yellow with age, otherwise looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.
This item £8.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[Chicago U.P. paperback in print at $27.00/£19.00]
Weight without packaging: 653g.
Contents: Marriages of King Philip I; Moral values — priests & knights; Marriage according to Bourchard; Robert the Pious; Princes & knights; The heretics; Lives of the saints, male & female; Guibert of Nogent; Yves of Chartres; The royal family; Literature; Lords of Amboise; Counts of Guines.
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: noNotes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: 2
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references at end of intro.
Index: yes[BML/D]
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