This eye-opening book covers over a thousand years of Western history and exposes the controls that noble, bourgeois, and propertied peasant families exerted over daughters (and sons) to ensure the continuity of existing social relations. It details the broader economic and social structures within which young women married and the degree to which the institution of the dowry--the marriage bargain--structured courtship and marriage. This provocative volume addresses important issues of women's status and their roles in the family, the family economy, and the economy at large.
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"Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. . . ," or, at least, sound more harmonious than "money and marriage." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dotal marriage, marital assigns, average dowry, dowered daughters, status emulation, propter nuptias, dower property, diritto privato, morning gift, marriage bargain, needle arts, substantial dowry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Imperial Germany, General Anzeiger, World War, David Herlihy, Leo Baeck Institute, Mediterranean Europe, Greek Civil Code, Lombard Italy, Edictum Rotharii, Jane Lambiri-Dimaki, Lalinde Abadia, Moyen Age, Santa Maria, Die Schüdigung, German Jews, Jane Schneider, Jüdisches Leben, Joan Kelly, King Liutprand, Leges Visigothorum, United States, Wir Lebten, Annales du Midi, Anthropological Quarterly New!
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"Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. . . ," or, at least, sound more harmonious than "money and marriage." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dotal marriage, marital assigns, average dowry, dowered daughters, status emulation, propter nuptias, dower property, diritto privato, morning gift, marriage bargain, needle arts, substantial dowry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Imperial Germany, General Anzeiger, World War, David Herlihy, Leo Baeck Institute, Mediterranean Europe, Greek Civil Code, Lombard Italy, Edictum Rotharii, Jane Lambiri-Dimaki, Lalinde Abadia, Moyen Age, Santa Maria, Die Schüdigung, German Jews, Jane Schneider, Jüdisches Leben, Joan Kelly, King Liutprand, Leges Visigothorum, United States, Wir Lebten, Annales du Midi, Anthropological Quarterly New!
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- Bridewealth and Dowry (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology) by Jack Goody on 4 pages
- German Family by Richard J. Evans in Front Matter, page 160, and page 162
- The Theoretical Importance of Love by William J. Goode in Front Matter, and page 162
- Leges Visigothorum by Karl Zeumer on page 47, and page 49
- Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century by Bonnie G. Smith in Front Matter, and page 155
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- To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 by Philip L. Reynolds on page 31, page 68, and page 465
- Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany by Nathan Stoltzfus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women and Property: In Early Modern England by Amy Louise Erickson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women, Wealth And Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300: Christians, Jews And Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town by Rebecca Lynn Winer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423 (Conjunctions of Religion & Power in the Medieval Past) by Daniel Lord Smail on page 144, and Back Matter
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