A thoughtful and highly enjoyable collection of essays exploring the historical development of Christian marriage from a Catholic perspective. This new volume includes Francis Martin: ""Marriage in the Biblical Period: The Old Testament and Intertestamental Period"" and ""Marriage in the Biblical Period: The New Testament;"" Glenn Olsen: ""The Good of Marriage in the Age of Augustine"" and ""Marriage in the Barbarian Kingdom and the Christian Court (Fifth through Eleventh Centuries);"" Teresa Pierre: ""Marriage Body and Sacrament in the Age of Hugh of St. Victor (Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries);"" Robert V. Young: ""Marriage and The Reformation;"" James Hitchcock: ""The Emergence of the Modern Family;"" and John Haas: ""Marriage in the Twentieth Century.