Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews - Couverture rigide

Weinstein, Roni

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004133046 ISBN 13 : 9789004133044

Editeur : Brill, 2003

Synopsis

Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews is the first comprehensive attempt to present the wealth of primary documents relating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - responsa, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. The book traces the chronological course of different phases of marriage (matchmaking, betrothal, the wedding day), and also adopts a thematic perspective. Marriage rituals mirror key issues in local Jewish culture: family life, gender, the youth sub-culture, sexuality, the uses of property, and the honor ethos. Jewish marriage rituals in Italy are revealed as surprisingly similar to those of their Catholic neighbors, and undergo similar change process.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roni Weinstein, Ph.D. (1996) in Early Modern Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, currently teaches at Tel-Aviv University. He has published on various aspects of Jewish-Italian cultural and social history: family life, education, sexuality, the ghetto, the youth culture, exorcism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004133046
• ISBN 13: 9789004133044
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 515
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• Personne responsable: non disponible