Wedding Customs (Classic Reprint): Then and Now (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

A vivid journey through how weddings moved from force and contract to mutual affection, across centuries and cultures.

From Force to Vows chronicles the cultural history of weddings, showing how marriage practices shift with society. It surveys early coercive customs, the money and bargaining of buying wives, grand wedding feasts, and evolving symbols like the ring. The text blends vivid examples with analysis to explain how love, law, and tradition shaped the wedding rite over time.

Readers will see how wedding rituals reflect power, wealth, and social change, and how modern ideas of partnership grew from these layered beginnings. This edition presents the long arc of wedding culture in approachable, story-driven detail.

• Explores marriage by force and how consent, law, and custom evolved.
• Examines the money, gifts, and bargaining that accompanied early unions.
• Traces wedding feast traditions, cake origins, and the social rituals of the day.
• Highlights the evolution of symbols like the wedding ring and their meanings.

Ideal for readers of cultural history, social history, and anyone curious about how a rite so intimate reflects broader human change.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.