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Penningväsensreformerna.

Det är märkligt att dessa "kritiska biografier" ständigt misslyckas med att imponera annat än genom deras skenhelighet.

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(in other words, wearing only a single tunic on their bodies) from Villeneuve-l’Archevêque to Sens. They were surrounded by other knights who had taken off their shoes

Next came the penitential procession that accompanied the distinguished sign of Christ’s humiliated kingship, the union of the king and his companions with the Passion of Jesus, and their participation in the return of the Incarnation. The king and his oldest brother Robert carried the shrine barefoot and in their shirts ...

d. The church of Sens was prestigious enough for its cathedral to provide the setting for the ceremony. The fact that Marguerite’s coronation followed immediately after the wedding, the next day, was probably a sign of Louis IX’s special consideration for his young wife.

Love took refuge in abduction, concubinage, adultery, and literature. Marriage for the sake of love had no meaning in the Middle Ages. Modern love as we know it in the West was born and for a long time lived only in the imagination and in illicit relations before it ever existed in conjugal practice.