Marriage Rituals Italian Style - A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews
This work aims to present the wealth of primary documents elating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - response, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. For those interested in Jewish history, early modern European history, social history, gender studies, anthropology and history, history of mentality, rituals, cultural encounter of Jews and Catholics, Mediterranean honor, family history, Italian history and culture.
Marriage in Medieval England - Law, Literature and Practice
This short book has a large compass, taking in both the Anglo-Saxon era and post-Conquest England through the fifteenth century, and embracing literary as well as legal and historical aspects of the subject of marriage; thus, a certain incompleteness and superficiality is to be expected. In a longish introduction, McCarthy presents the thesis that marriage in medieval England was over-regulated, and therefore subject to unexpected contradictions.
When thoughts of marriage turn to murder... As resident manager for the exclusive retirement community of Valhalla Springs, Hannah Garvey is up to any challenge life throws her way -- which, lately, is usually a corpse. But a marriage proposal from sexy lawman David Hendrickson has her completely flummoxed. Doesn't he realize the odds against a successful Aries-Libra match?
Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she's spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is-and what she's done-is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will Maggie walk away from her ten-year marriage and her responsibility as a foster mother in her desperate desire to escape the mantle of depression that is cloaking her?
This book tells the story of the queen whose marriage to King Henry VII ended England's Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the 118-year Tudor dynasty. Best known as the mother of Henry VIII and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this Queen Elizabeth contributed far beyond the act of giving birth to future monarchs. Her marriage to Henry VII unified the feuding houses of Lancaster and York, and her popularity with the people helped her husband survive rebellions that plagued his first decade of rule. Queen Elizabeth's gracious manners and large family created a warm, convivial Court marked by a rather exceptional fondness between the royal couple.
