The Roman Wedding
by Karen K. HerschEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-24
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire (from ca. 200 BC to AD 200), Karen Hersch shows how the Roman wedding expressed the ideals and norms of an ancient people. Her book is an invaluable tool for Roman social historians interested in how ideas of gender, law, religion, and tradition are interwoven into the wedding ceremony of every culture.
Author Biography
Karen K. Hersch is Assistant Professor of Classics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Laws of Humans and Gods | p. 15 |
| Some Important Terms and Concepts | p. 15 |
| The Wedding and the Law | p. 19 |
| Conubium | p. 20 |
| Manus and Confarreatio | p. 23 |
| Matrimonium Iniustum, Concubinatus, and Contubernium | p. 27 |
| Serviles Nuptiae? | p. 29 |
| Same-Sex Weddings | p. 33 |
| Betrothal | p. 39 |
| Days to Marry | p. 44 |
| Consensus, or Nuptiae? | p. 51 |
| The Defining Moment? | p. 55 |
| Conclusion | p. 59 |
| At the House of the Bride | p. 61 |
| The Ideal Bride | p. 61 |
| Prenuptial Rites? Dolls and Clothes | p. 65 |
| The Costume of the Bride: An Overview | p. 69 |
| Bedecking | p. 71 |
| Bridal Hairstyle | p. 73 |
| Sex Crines | p. 73 |
| Hasta caelibaris | p. 80 |
| Vittae, Infulae | p. 84 |
| Corona, Corolla | p. 89 |
| Corona Turrita | p. 92 |
| Flammeum | p. 94 |
| Reticulum | p. 106 |
| Tunica recta | p. 108 |
| Cingulum, Nodus Herculaneus | p. 109 |
| Socci lutei | p. 112 |
| Conclusion: Bride's Clothes | p. 114 |
| Events at the House of the Bride | p. 114 |
| Auspices et Auspicia | p. 115 |
| Sacrifice | p. 119 |
| Tabulae: Tablets of Marriage or Dowry | p. 123 |
| Conclusion | p. 131 |
| To the Groom's House | p. 135 |
| The Ideal Groom | p. 135 |
| The Clothing of the Groom | p. 137 |
| The House of the Groom: Wedding Night, or Day? | p. 138 |
| Domum Deductio: To the Groom's House | p. 140 |
| Reluctance of and Seizing the Bride | p. 144 |
| Talassio | p. 148 |
| Feliciter | p. 150 |
| Fescennini Versus | p. 151 |
| Nuces | p. 156 |
| Child Attendants (Camilli/ae/Patrimi Matrimi) | p. 159 |
| Baskets and Spindles? | p. 162 |
| Taeda, Fax | p. 164 |
| Torchbearers | p. 167 |
| Torches: Material and Number | p. 171 |
| Torches: Conclusion | p. 174 |
| Gifts of Coins | p. 176 |
| Besmearing Doorposts with Fat and Decorating with Wool | p. 177 |
| Threshold | p. 180 |
| Fire and Water | p. 182 |
| Ubi tu Gaius ego Gaia | p. 187 |
| Pronuba/Dextraum Iunctio: The Literary Evidence | p. 190 |
| Pronuba | p. 191 |
| Dextrarum Iunctio | p. 199 |
| Pronuba and Dextrarum Iunctio in Roman Art | p. 205 |
| Pronuba in Art | p. 206 |
| Dextrarum Iunctio in Art | p. 208 |
| Reclining and Dining | p. 212 |
| The Wedding Night | p. 220 |
| Repotia | p. 221 |
| Conclusion | p. 222 |
| Gods of the Roman Wedding | p. 227 |
| Ritual and Religion | p. 227 |
| The Gods | p. 231 |
| The Evidence from Roman Epithalamia | p. 232 |
| Hymenaeus | p. 236 |
| The Wedding Cry and Song | p. 239 |
| The God in Literature | p. 242 |
| The God in Art | p. 259 |
| Concordia | p. 262 |
| Juno | p. 262 |
| Venus | p. 264 |
| Fortuna Virginalis, Mutu/inus Tutu/inus, Picumnus and Pilumnus | p. 266 |
| Fortuna Virginalis | p. 267 |
| Mutinus Titinus | p. 269 |
| Picumnus and Pilumnus | p. 273 |
| Vesta and Janus | p. 274 |
| Ceres and Tellus | p. 275 |
| Household Gods: Lares, Penates, and Genius | p. 278 |
| Priestesses and the Wedding | p. 279 |
| Conclusion | p. 286 |
| Conclusion | p. 289 |
| Bibliography | p. 305 |
| Index | p. 319 |
| Illustrations | p. 319 |
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