A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity 9781350001800, 9781350179646, 9781350001916

A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity (The Cultural Histories Series) 9781350001800, 9781350001916, 9781350179653, 1350001805

Marriage, across cultures, is often defined as a union between consenting adults that lasts for the life of the partners

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Empires 9781350001893, 9781350001916, 9781350179752, 1350001899

This volume looks at how, during the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldw

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment 9781350001886, 9781350001916, 1350001880

Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age 9781350001909, 9781350001916, 9781350179783, 1350001902

Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age 9781350001824, 9781350179714, 9781350001916

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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age 9781350001831, 9781350001916, 135000183X

Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period betwee

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A cultural history of marriage (in the medieval age) 9781350001824, 9781350001916, 9781350179721, 1350001821

Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and

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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity [1] 1350028525, 9781350028524

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex

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A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity 9781350079243, 9781474212298, 9781350079236

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A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity 0857853392, 9780857853394

The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally

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