The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Roman Wedding This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 24 May 2010
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Gender Studies, Gender Groups | Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Anthropology | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780521196109 ISBN 10: 0521196108
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Full description for The Roman Wedding
The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire (from ca. 200 BC to AD 200), Karen Hersch shows how the Roman wedding expressed the ideals and norms of an ancient people. Her book is an invaluable tool for Roman social historians interested in how ideas of gender, law, religion, and tradition are interwoven into the wedding ceremony of every culture.
