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Unmarriages

Author : Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220641X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Unmarriages written by Ruth Mazo Karras and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. Social norms militated against the marriage of master to slave or between individuals of very different classes, or when the couple was so poor that they could not establish an independent household. Such unions, where the protections that medieval law furnished to wives (and their children) were absent, were fraught with danger for women in particular, but they also provided a degree of flexibility and demonstrate the adaptability of social customs in the face of slowly changing religious doctrine. Unmarriages draws on a wide range of sources from across Europe and the entire medieval millennium in order to investigate structures and relations that medieval authors and record keepers did not address directly, either in order to minimize them or because they were so common as not to be worth mentioning. Ruth Mazo Karras pays particular attention to the ways women and men experienced forms of opposite-sex union differently and to the implications for power relations between the genders. She treats legal and theological discussions that applied to all of Europe and presents a vivid series of case studies of how unions operated in specific circumstances to illustrate concretely what we can conclude, how far we can speculate, and what we can never know.

Married, and now? My unmarriage adventures.

Author : Tatiana Amaral
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1507188978
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Married, and now? My unmarriage adventures. written by Tatiana Amaral and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You can be surprised when you realize that in some situations your new experience can becomes the best and that many times it is not what you wait for, but something bigger than that. I learned that when worth it, the new experiences can be useful and necessary. So, even you think you are taking a wrong step it can be the rightest step in all your life." Cléo is a younge writer, with many dreams, whi lives in a right life with her groom where everything is in its own place. But she wants to get married and for this she agrees with a unexpected condition: a deal in which both of them should be one month separated for having new experiences. And that is how she, even against her wishes, ends up in Las Vegas with her friends for her "extended bachelorette party". Her own desire is making the time pass faster and so, she can come back to her relationship. However, Cléo's plans are frightened when she meets Douglas, a tall guy with black hair and eyes and owner of the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. Cléo's life changes completely when she wakes up after a funny night and discover that she is married with Douglas. She cannot remember everything that happened and now she needs to run againt time for getting divorced and come back to home in time to recover her relationship with John. But, the things are not as they used to be before. Cléo and Douglas will live big adventures while they need waiting the divorce. Involved by their new feelings which came from this relation, they need to choose between forgetting the past and allow them to live this love or forget this adventure and return to their lives. Douglas knows what he wants, but Cléo has fear of allowing herself to this change. Married. And now? It is a surprising romance in which the reality is not exactly what it demonstrates. You come on too in this amazing adventure through Las Vegas.

That Most Precious Merchandise

Author : Hannah Barker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251547
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book That Most Precious Merchandise written by Hannah Barker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Aegean Sea. Yet the trade in Black Sea slaves provided merchants with profit and prestige; states with military recruits, tax revenue, and diplomatic influence; and households with the service of women, men, and children. Even though Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Greater Syria were the three most important strands in the web of the Black Sea slave trade, they have rarely been studied together. Examining Latin and Arabic sources in tandem, Hannah Barker shows that Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the Mediterranean shared a set of assumptions and practices that amounted to a common culture of slavery. Indeed, the Genoese, Venetian, and Mamluk slave trades were thoroughly entangled, with wide-ranging effects. Genoese and Venetian disruption of the Mamluk trade led to reprisals against Italian merchants living in Mamluk cities, while their participation in the trade led to scathing criticism by supporters of the crusade movement who demanded commercial powers use their leverage to weaken the force of Islam. Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

Author : Elisabeth van Houts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192519743
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 written by Elisabeth van Houts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

Moving Past Marriage

Author : Jaclyn Geller
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1627782478
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Moving Past Marriage written by Jaclyn Geller and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for anyone who has felt they are at a disadvantage simply because they are single or unmarried. Married Americans enjoy over 1,000 benefits and entitlements that are withheld from our non-marital counterparts. Health insurance, immigration rights, tax privileges (such as the estate tax), and hiring policies favor the married. Marriage is subsidized and incentivized by the federal government. Social customs such as blockbuster weddings, subsidized honeymoons, and gifts reserved for wedded couples reify matrimony as a centering norm and further the idea that "marriage is best," a commonplace in popular psychology, where marriage-averse people are often tarred as "commitment-phobes." Despite this blatant and widespread prejudice, non-marital Americans—non-marital people—have not galvanized as a group to demand equality and inclusion. Why? Moving Past Marriage argues that it is because of our troubled relationship to history. As women's history once was, non-marital history has been buried, so that the disenfranchisement that non-marital people share in wedlock-dominated societies, as well as our remarkable, far-ranging achievements, have been hard to spot. In recovering our own history, non-marital people can become self-aware as a group and begin to challenge marriage-centric thinking and practice.

The Routledge History of Monarchy

Author : Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351787306
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Monarchy written by Elena Woodacre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history.

Popular romance in Iceland

Author : Sheryl McDonald Werronen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048526159
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Popular romance in Iceland written by Sheryl McDonald Werronen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A late medieval Icelandic romance about the maiden-king of France, Nítída saga, was well received in its day and grew in popularity throughout post-Reformation Iceland. It has not, however, received the comprehensive scholarly analysis it deserves, or that other Icelandic sagas have received. Sheryl McDonald Werronen corrects that here, offering a detailed study of the saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions of identity, gender, female solidarity, and the romance genre itself.

Rethinking Reform in the Latin West, 10th to Early 12th Century

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004681086
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Reform in the Latin West, 10th to Early 12th Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes. In 11 thematic chapters it takes stock of the current state of research and offers suggestions to deepen our understanding of the ideological, institutional, and cultural dynamics at play. Contributors are Julia Barrow, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Gordon Blennemann, Katy Cubitt, Nicolangelo D'Acunto, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Ludger Körntgen, Rutger Kramer, Brigitte Meijns, Diane Reilly, Rachel Stone, and Steven Vanderputten.

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

Author : Gary Ferguson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706551
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome written by Gary Ferguson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome. Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts Gary Ferguson brings the story of a same-sex marriage to life in striking detail. He unearths an incredible amount of detail about the men, their sex lives, and how others responded to this information, which allows him to explore attitudes toward marriage, sex, and gender at the time. Emphasizing the instability of marriage in premodern Europe, Ferguson argues that same-sex unions should be considered part of the institution's complex and contested history.

The Future of Love

Author : Daphne Rose Kingma
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307434168
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Love written by Daphne Rose Kingma and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The future of relationships is moving us toward the vaulting awareness of who we really are as human beings, something we have managed to avoid for a very long time by being so thoroughly committed to convention...This is the future of love--vast love, love beyond boundaries, love without preconceptions and judgments, love without outdated myths--love which can actually be experienced." At a time when over half of all marriages are ending in divorce, Daphne Rose Kingma, a well-known therapist and relationship expert, has recognized that our familiar ways of thinking about relationships are no longer working. "I have written this book because it is clear that many of our previous assumptions about relationships need to be dismantled," writes Kingma. "As we go through this process, we will discover a number of new ideas: that our relationships can have different forms than we ever imagined; that they will serve different purposes; that they will require different offerings from us. They will also bring us new gifts." We are in the midst of a sea change, in which not only are many traditional relationships failing, but unexpected new arrangements are beginning to appear; gay marriages are surfacing, step-families abound, and many people are consciously choosing to live alone. As Kingma explains, these transformations should not be feared; instead, they represent a real opportunity. In the past, conventional relationships were often destroyed by an overemphasis on the nuts and bolts of psychology, on working to achieve the unattainable "perfect relationship" while ignoring our most vital selves--our souls. The glorious message of The Future of Love is that the disturbing changes we are all experiencing are actually part of the soul's plan, as it breaks down outdated conventions to bring us a new, fuller understanding of love.

Mixed Matches

Author : David M. Luebke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384103
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Mixed Matches written by David M. Luebke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants, those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther’s redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers’ attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.

Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517

Author : Wolfgang P. Müller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108962440
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517 written by Wolfgang P. Müller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy, Catalonia, and Castile, this study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P. Müller draws attention to the existence of public penitential proceedings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the difference in demand, as well as highlighting variations in how individuals obtained written documentation of their marital status. Integrating legal and theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals about both institutions.

The Manly Priest

Author : Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247523
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Manly Priest written by Jennifer D. Thibodeaux and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manly Priest examines the clerical celibacy movement in medieval England and Normandy, which produced a new model of religious masculinity for the priesthood and resulted in social tension and conflict as traditional norms of masculine behavior were radically altered for this group of men.

Royal Bastards

Author : Sara McDougall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198785828
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Royal Bastards written by Sara McDougall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stigmatisation as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in medieval European history, but Sara McDougall demonstrates that until well into the late 12th-century a child's prospects depended more upon the social status and lineage of both parents than of the legitimacy of their marriage.

Medieval Histories 2012 4:2

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Publisher : Medieval Histories
ISBN 13 : 8792858074
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Histories 2012 4:2 written by and published by Medieval Histories. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jew's Daughter

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498527795
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Jew's Daughter written by Efraim Sicher and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of the gendering of ethnic difference in Western society, Sicher’s multidisciplinary, comparative analysis shows how racialized images have persisted and helped to form prejudiced views of the Other.

Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000548341
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe written by Christian Raffensperger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it. Instead, they talked about the wider world, and often they had informants or textual sources that informed them about the world, even if they did not visit it themselves. This volume shows that they also used similar ideas to create space and identity – whether talking about the desert, the holy land, or food practices in their texts. By examining medieval authors and their own perceptions of their world, this collection offers a framework for discussions of medieval Europe in the twenty-first century.