Format:
1 Online-Ressource (706 p.)
ISBN:
9781614512639
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Map -- 1 Her outward appearance -- 1.1 Phases of life -- 1.2 The girl -- 1.3 The virgin -- 1.4 Women's clothing -- 1.5 Cosmetics and beauty -- 1.6 The language of women -- 1.7 Women's names -- 2 Marriage -- 2.1 Preparations -- 2.2 Age for marrying -- 2.3 Regulations -- 2.4 The betrothal -- 2.5 The wedding -- 2.6 Marriage and magic -- 3 The marriage gifts -- 3.1 General remarks -- 3.2 The bride-price -- 3.3 The dowry -- 3.4 Gifts from the man -- 4 The family -- 4.1 Impotence -- 4.2 Children -- 4.3 The mother -- 4.4 Bereavement -- 4.5 Childlessness -- 4.6 Repudiation of a childless wife -- 5 A second wife -- 5.1 A slave-girl -- 5.2 Initiating the transaction -- 5.3 The second wife in the Old Assyrian period -- 5.4 The second wife in later periods -- 5.5 The position of the second wife when the first wife is ill -- 6 Concubines -- 7 Marriage between equals -- 8 Marriage to a slave -- 9 Divorce -- 9.1 In Babylonia -- 9.2 In Assyria -- 9.3 In the Neo-Babylonian period -- 9.4 In Syria -- 9.5 Motives for divorce -- 9.6 Predictions -- 9.7 Reconciliation -- 10 Adultery -- 10.1 Women who initiate adultery -- 10.2 Were both lovers treated equally? -- 10.3 Caught in the act -- 10.4 Punishment -- 10.5 Accusations of adultery -- 10.6 The Mother of Sin -- 10.7 An adulterous princess? -- 11 Rape -- 11.1 Slave-girl -- 11.2 Unmarried girl -- 11.3 Married woman -- 11.4 The locations -- 11.5 In myths -- 11.6 The right of the first night -- 12 Incest -- 12.1 Promiscuity -- 12.2 Incest -- 13 The widow -- 13.1 Poor widows -- 13.2 Arrangements made for widows in wills -- 13.3 Powerful widows -- 13.4 Remarrying -- 13.5 Cohabiting -- 13.6 Widows with children -- 14 Levirate marriage -- 15 Women's rights of inheritance -- 16 Women-trafficking under the guise of adoption -- 16.1 The Old Babylonian period -- 16.2 Nuzi.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781614513230
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781614513230
Language:
English
