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Showing posts with label Weddings in History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weddings in History. Show all posts
29 June 2015

Weddings in History: Creating the Wedding of a Fictional Priestess in 14th Century Wales

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By  Ginger Myrick My current project is The Welsh Prophecy , a work of historical fiction with a fantasy twist. It is set in 14 th c...
17 June 2015

Weddings in History: Ritual and Financial Exchange in Tenth-Century Christian Spain

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By  Jessica Knauss  Image by Gerard Belfast (Flickr) Chaucer's Wife of Bath speaks of having husbands "at church door....
08 June 2015

Weddings in History: Briseis Weds Mynes - Reconstructing Trojan Wedding Rituals

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My novel, Hand of Fire , set within the Trojan War has a key wedding early on. It isn’t going to be a happy wedding—the reader h...
03 June 2015

Weddings in History: The bride price in medieval Muslim weddings

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By  Lisa J. Yarde When medieval Muslim brides married, by custom they were supposed to receive a bride price or in the Arabic term, t...
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