The history of marriage and the myth of Friedelehe.
The idea that Friedelehe and Muntehe constituted two distinct forms of Germanic marriage was based upon an attempt to reconstruct common Germanic culture with scraps of evidence from widely different times and places. A thorough re-examination of the sources for the institutions that were posited, b...
| Published in: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 119 - 152 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2006
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