Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History of Widowhood - Hardcover

Bremmer, Jan N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415083702 ISBN 13: 9780415083706

Verlag: Routledge, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. The book shows how difficult it is to define the 'typical' widow, as the experiences of these women have differed so widely, not simply because of their different time periods and locations, but also becuase of their varying legal and religious status and economic conditions.
The study is diverse with subjects ranging from:
*Hindu wives who followed their husbands to the pyre
*widows who were burned as witches
*and widows who had to become prostitutes to stay alive.
The book also explores Jesus's interest in widows and the experience of some well-known widows, such as Mohammed's first wife.

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Lourens P. van den Bosch is Associate Professor of History of Religion at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He is the author of Atharvaveda-parisista: Chapters 21–29, Introduction, Translation and Notes (1978) and Inleiding in het hindoeïsme (1990). Jan N.Bremmer is Professor of History of Religion at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He is the author of The Early Greek Concept of the Soul (1983) and Greek Religion (1994), co-author of Roman Myth and Mythography (1987), editor of Interpretations of Greek Mythology (1987), From Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality (1989) and A Dictionary of Ancient Religions (1995), and co-editor of A Cultural History of Gesture (1991).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415083702
• ISBN 13: 9780415083706
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Herausgeber: Bosch Lourens Van Den
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