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 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 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 Medieval Age 9781350001824, 9781350179714, 9781350001916

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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 Tragedy in Antiquity [1] 1474287891, 9781474287890

In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its cen

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A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity 9781350048133, 9780857850973, 9781350009189

A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women’s history in the West from 500 BCE to 1000CE. This time period i

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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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