{"product_id":"love-and-marriage-in-the-william-d-paden-9780813079585","title":"Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOverturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical records\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, due partly to assumptions about arranged matches that have been reinforced by scholars who suggest that troubadour poetry was not concerned with love but rather with poetic form and structure. In this book, William Paden challenges that belief, using historical sources to argue that the songs of the troubadours reveal an inextricable link between desire and marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaden analyzes twelfth- through fourteenth-century troubadour poetry from the Occitan region, which stretched across portions of medieval France, Catalonia, and Italy; visual art, both images and objects; a corpus of over a thousand marriage contracts; and various liturgical manuscripts. Tracing literary and artistic output alongside the evolution of the institution of marriage from late antiquity to the early and high Middle Ages, Paden demonstrates that the stereotype of loveless unions reflects modern scholarly bias more than medieval reality. \u003ci\u003eLove and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours\u003c\/i\u003e restores the period's complexity, showing how desire and devotion often intertwined--and how courtly song reveals the relationship between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William D. Paden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813079586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813079585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs","brand":"William D. Paden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447099044095,"sku":"9780813079585","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f27b943f-ffc9-4878-9f0f-fdafe548dc68.jpg?v=1777228813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-marriage-in-the-william-d-paden-9780813079585","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}