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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval Culture 1 C H A P T E R O N E Married Friendship: An Ideology for the Franklin 21 C H A P T E R T WO Public Voice, Private Life: Marriage and Masculinity in John Gower’s Traitié 51 C H A P T E R T H R E E Performing Reform: Marriage, Lay Piety, and Sacramental Theater in the N-Town Mary Plays 89 C H A P T E R F O U R The Marriage of Love and Sex: Margery Kempe and Bourgeois Lay Identity 129 Notes 161 Bibliography 215 Index 239 Lipton 000.FM 6/8/07 12:45 PM Page vii Lipton 000.FM 6/8/07 12:45 PM Page viii ...

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