Review of: Gabriela Signori: Von der Paradiesehe zur Gütergemeinschaft. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Lebens- und Vorstellungswelt. Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Campus Verlag 2011.

Abstract

Gabriela Signori’s research paper discusses the institution of marriage as a form of community between woman and man in medieval times and in doing so, covers the range from sources within history of ideas, to legal arrangements and the underlying scientific circumstances, to forms of culture of remembrance. She illustrates connections between the three realms and analyzes fields that have not been dealt with scientifically to date. This results in a sophisticated overview of the pertinent discourses in history of thought, their prolific implementation into the social reality of urban culture in late medieval times, and their materialization within the frame of a culture of remembrance, which assumes a time continuum that transcends death.