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Polygyny, in Europe? The grand narrative of Western history is the development of monogamous marriage, culminating in the central Middle Ages. Other kinds of relationships have often, perhaps too lightly, been dismissed as 'just lust'. In this book, Jan Rüdiger investigates the plurality of man-woman relationships in medieval Scandinavia and analyses the social and political 'uses' of elite polygyny.<br> <br> By way of comparison the findings from the North are then applied to England, France, a

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Author

Jan Rüdiger

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004349513

Category

relationships

Subjects

History, Sociology, Family & Relationships

Updated

2026-03-25