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From Brideprice To Dowry in Mediterranean Europe

From Brideprice To Dowry in Mediterranean Europe IN FROM BRIDEPRICE TO DOWRY EUROPE MEDITERRANEAN Owen Diane Hughes* The is husband to not wife to husband. Parents and kinsmen attend and dowry brought by wife, by the new of not chosen to a woman’s whim or to deck a bride, but approve gifts, gifts please oxen, horse with and sword. For his wife ... reins, shield, such spear gifts [a German] gets Tacitus, Germania, I seus’ fate was which is described known, as what follows a dear child&dquo; &dquo;fittingly In ancient times the Greco-Roman world, as its name 1:275-8), is, (Odyssey, sug- in its adherence to a of dotal mar- system all or of her subse- bridewealth, gests, part itself from the barbar- riage, distinguished bestowed on her her own kin in by quently ians who hovered on its borders and who and the form of it stands dowry; midway for bridewealth their not gave wives, dowry hedna with which heroes like between the to their re- daughters. Aristotle-perhaps their wives and the &dquo;seven well- Hector got Homeric accounts of like calling marriages cities&dquo; with which peopled Agamemnon that of who married Andromache Hector, to dower one of his on promised daughters out of the house of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Family History: Studies in Family, Kinship, Gender, and Demography SAGE

From Brideprice To Dowry in Mediterranean Europe

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IN FROM BRIDEPRICE TO DOWRY EUROPE MEDITERRANEAN Owen Diane Hughes* The is husband to not wife to husband. Parents and kinsmen attend and dowry brought by wife, by the new of not chosen to a woman’s whim or to deck a bride, but approve gifts, gifts please oxen, horse with and sword. For his wife ... reins, shield, such spear gifts [a German] gets Tacitus, Germania, I seus’ fate was which is described known, as what follows a dear child&dquo; &dquo;fittingly In ancient times the Greco-Roman world, as its name 1:275-8), is, (Odyssey, sug- in its adherence to a of dotal mar- system all or of her subse- bridewealth, gests, part itself from the barbar- riage, distinguished bestowed on her her own kin in by quently ians who hovered on its borders and who and the form of it stands dowry; midway for bridewealth their not gave wives, dowry hedna with which heroes like between the to their re- daughters. Aristotle-perhaps their wives and the &dquo;seven well- Hector got Homeric accounts of like calling marriages cities&dquo; with which peopled Agamemnon that of who married Andromache Hector, to dower one of his on promised daughters out of the house of

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Journal of Family History: Studies in Family, Kinship, Gender, and Demography – SAGE

Published: Sep 1, 1978

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