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... policy and court politics, and studying them reveals a great deal about the nature of Muscovite political culture (see table 1). Three formerly unstudied texts — dowry inventories (spisok pridan- nykh) from three dynastic weddings — shed important new light on Musco- 120  Journal...

... the sixteen-year- old Dorothea Elisabeth Lichtwer with the consent of her parents and after a five-year struggle with courts, dukes, and consistories. He and his bride had requested — and received in January 1667 — permission to wed from the Elector of Saxony...

... valuable clothing for special occasions, such as weddings.36 Did their female relatives also help to build up the collaborative relationships essential to the process of clothes buying? A more representative picture emerges depending on the type of sources we consult. Family account books rarely...

... as a gatekeeper, facilitator, and mediator between the locative realm of the sacred and the wild, not least of all in the impromptu wedding scene during which she transforms Orlando’s understanding of sacred space. To Orlando the for- est had appeared dangerously undifferentiated and feral, the antithesis...

...- bands. Maria Sanudo, testating three years after her wedding, requested burial in the sepulcher of the “casa de mio padre.”27 Three years of mar- riage had created only a frail bond between Maria and her husband, whom she left completely out of her will. That silence might explain why her ties...

... there and continue to structure and inflect the action of the play itself. The prologue opens with an extended, and somewhat disconcerting, comparison between “new plays and maiden- heads.”13 The play proper begins with a masque of Hymen, leading Theseus’s wedding procession, which is interrupted by the three...

...-breathing bulls, with Jason holding the golden fleece on London Bridge, alluding to Charles’s lordship of the Toison d’Or. (His father Charles the Bold had been represented as Jason in the nuptial entremet celebrating his wedding to Margaret of York, aiding Hercules in his Twelve Labors...

... into the Spanish Match negotiations over the proposed marriage of Charles and Maria following Henry s death. The tensions implicit in these perceptions of Frederick and Eliza- beth s marriage are underscored by the wedding festivities. As Kevin Curran has argued, the competing ideological stances...

... wounds the victor. He ultimately dies from a gruesome infection of his accidental wound with both Emily and Palamon at his side. Yet the tale ends not in weeping but in joy when Duke Theseus finally moves from the dirges of brave Arcite's funeral to the triumph of Palamon's wedding march. And despite...

... . European Festival Studies: 1450–1700. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2020. 349 pp., 23 color plates, 45 black-and-white figs. eur 90.00. Canova-Green, Marie-Claude, and Sara J. Wolfson, eds. The Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, 1625: Celebrations and Controversy . European Festival Studies: 1450...

... across the river were several more men named Richard Price with wives named Elizabeth. It is tempting to imagine our Richard Price’s wedding at St. George the Martyr, where he would be buried, but it seems more likely that he married at St. Thomas where the extant register begins in 1614. London...

... S., and Nigel Smith, eds. Mysticism and Reform, 1400–­1750. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. x, 408 pp.; 13 illus. Paper $45.00. Smart, Sara, and Mara R. Wade, eds. The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protes- tant Alliance and Court...

.... Having decided to marry Hermione despite his unrequited love for Andromache, Pyhrrus, with a delicious perversity, invites Orestes to the wedding as a witness: It seemed as if such a sweet spectacle In this place was only waiting for a witness like you. You will represent all...

... on the commonwealth envisioned a nation in which the king served on behalf of his subjects, and they showed loyalty and deference toward him in recompense for his kindness.12 Within this framework, the duties of the king were considered wedded to the needs of his citizens.13 It was expected that he would rule...

... that already exist by encouraging husbands to see their wives as exemplars of unruly and grotesque women. In a scene from the interlude between parts one and two of the Satyre, the Pardoner purports to grant the Sowtar and his wife a divorce through a scatological perversion of the wedding kiss...

..., theological and devotional interest in covenantal love tends to be superseded by the glamour of the wedding industry and therapeutic advice about date nights and respectful fights. Yet both love and obligation remain essential to what marriage is still imag- ined to be, which is one reason why...

... jade gave him at the wedding: shee is a witch, and that was a charme, if there be any in the World” Hirschfeld / Collaboration across Generations 359 (1904–7). The former skeptic thus turns prosecutor, dedicating himself, like Arthur, to a judicial process...

... needed funds at a time of misfortune or when he or she (women were required to make offerings, too) wanted to raise funds to pay for a building or a wedding feast.22 Similar bookkeeping took place in tenth- century Byzantium, although in this case the document that we have con- cerns the offerings...

... a fatal wedding gift, a poisoned shawl and tiara — sometimes 78  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.1 / 2013 referred to as a “bridal veil” — which kills both Glauce and Creon. Finally, in anger toward Jason, Medea murders their two sons. Thus, despite (or per- haps because of ) all...