The Roman Wedding (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521196109)

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 200 AD), 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: Karen K. Hersch
ISBN-10: 0521196108
ISBN-13: 9780521196109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2011