Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304) and index.
Contents:
Pomp and pageantry, impiety and obscenity -- Birthdays, patron saints, and names for newborns -- Pregnancy, privacy, and parish priests -- But if you do not love him? -- Men remembering romance (and other reasons to marry) -- Inventing love stories -- True wedding portraits -- Where their bodies were buried -- To fear the wrath of heaven.
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