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The papers in this volume were among the contributions presented at an international symposium, Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, which was held at the Swedish Institute in Rome in October 2006. The symposium was held under the aegis of ARACHNE-the Nordic network for women's history and gender studies in Antiquity. The study of ancient marriage has been largely the province of historians working Other texts, and the result of this was an emphasis on elite marriages discussed by the male w...

Marriage --- Marriage in literature --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- History --- Sources --- 392.4/.5 <09> --- 392.4/.5 <09> Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Geschiedenis van .. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Geschiedenis van . --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- Roman history --- History of ancient Greece --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Geschiedenis van

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The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, "sacred marriages," gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define "sacred marriage" as a "real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context." "Sacred marriages" (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, "the great dualism of human and cosmic existence."The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor-that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places.Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the "sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse" but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.

Marriage --- Spirituality. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Religious aspects. --- Spirituality --- 265.5 --- 291.37 --- 265.5 Huwelijk --- Huwelijk --- Religious aspects --- Godsdienstige ceremonieën. Religieuze symboliek. Mysteries. Inwijding --- SELF-HELP --- RELIGION --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Spiritual. --- Inspirational.

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geboorte --- huwelijk --- communie --- liefde --- gedicht --- kindertijd --- dood --- C3 --- dichtbundel --- bloemlezing --- 721 --- Kunst en cultuur --- Poëzie - Nederlands --- #A9209A --- Dutch literature

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This text examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives - marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed.

392.4/.5 <460> --- Marriage --- -Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- 392.4/.5 <460> Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Spanje --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Spanje --- History -&delete& --- 15th century --- -392.4/.5 <460> Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Spanje --- History --- -15th century --- Married life --- Wives --- Social conditions. --- Spouses --- Women --- Housewives --- Married women --- -History

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The American fixation with marriage, so prevalent in today's debates over marriage for same-sex couples, owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930's. Today, millions of couples seek help to save their marriages each year. Over the intervening decades, marriage counseling has powerfully promoted the idea that successful marriages are essential to both individuals' and the nation's well-being. Rebecca Davis reveals how couples and counselors transformed the ideal of the perfect marriage as they debated sexuality, childcare, mobility, wage earning, and autonomy, exposing both the fissures and aspirations of American society. From the economic dislocations of the Great Depression to more recent debates over government-funded "Healthy Marriage" programs, counselors have responded to the shifting needs and goals of American couples. Tensions among personal fulfillment, career aims, religious identity, and socioeconomic status have coursed through the history of marriage and explain why the stakes in the institution are so fraught for the couples involved and for the communities to which they belong. Americans care deeply about marriages-their own and other people's-because they have made enormous investments of time, money, and emotion to improve their own relationships and because they believe that their personal decisions about whom to marry or whether to divorce extend far beyond themselves. This intriguing book tells the uniquely American story of a culture gripped with the hope that, with enough effort and the right guidance, more perfect marital unions are within our reach.

Marriage counseling --- Marriage --- Divorce --- 392.4/.5 <73> --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA