The affairs of the flesh. Intimate life of people in the Middle Ages in the space of judicial polemics

This book talks about what historical sources are usually silent about - about the private life of people of the era of the Middle Ages and the early New Age, about their personal experiences, about marital love and treason, about unrequited feelings, about friendship, resentment, attempts to solve family problems independently or resorting to the help of official instances. The heroes of the stories collected here were the simplest inhabitants, which were almost never mentioned in chronicles, theological works, didactic treatises or works of art. These people could fall into the field of view of the historian only if they were involved in various crimes and the court began to be interested in them. Materials of criminal investigations that have been conducted in the French kingdom for many centuries allow you to partially penetrate the innermost secrets of its inhabitants, hear how and what they spoke of their most intimate moments of their lives, to find out what was permissible for them to be discussed publicly, and that there was no , understand what legal and general cultural ideas they were guided by.
The book is addressed to historians, jurists, philologists, culturalists, as well as a wide circle of readers who are interested in the history of everyday life and private life