Marriage Rituals Italian Style : A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews / / Roni Weinstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449881703321
• Autore: Weinstein Roni
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-46510-7; 9786610465101; 1-4237-1419-9; 90-474-0267-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (533 p.)
• Collana: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; ; 35
• Disciplina: 296.4/44/0945
• Soggetti: Anthropology - Italy; Jewish marriage customs and rites - Italy; Judaism - Italy - History - 16th century; Judaism - Italy - History - 17th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Research Field, The Method, The Sources, The Research Questions; Chapter One: "An Auspicious Time For Finding Mates": Matchmaking (Stage One)-Finding A Partner; Chapter Two: "Matchmaking Is Much Like Betrothal": Matchmaking (Stage Two)-Signing And Publishing The Tenaim; Chapter Three: "The Issue Is Not The Ring, But The Publicity": Kiddushin-Public And Hidden; Chapter Four: "A Woman's Voice Is Lewdness": Gossip, Honor, and Social Control in the Marriage Ritual; Chapter Five: "To Give Her Gifts and Betroth Her by the Law of Moses and Israel": Gifts and the Marriage RitualChapter Six: "Shame on the Youth who Aches for Women": The Marriage Ritual as Seen by the Young; Chapter Seven: "Mirth And Clowning On This Matter": The Wedding Day-Between Pious Joy And Carnival; Summary: Marriage Rituals Italian Style; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.