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Title:

Between poverty and the pyre : moments in the history of widowhood / edited by Jan Bremmer and Lourens van den Bosch.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Widowhood--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Bremmer, Jan N.
Bosch, Lourens van den, 1944-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.

Contents:

Widows in western history : a select bibliography / Frouke Veenstra and Kirsten van der Ploeg Public image of the widow in ancient Israel / Karel van der Toorn -- Pauper or patroness : the widow in the early Christian church / Jan N. Bremmer -- Widows in Anglo-Saxon England / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr -- Widows and the law : the legal position of widows in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Dieneke Hempenius-van Dijk -- 'European widows' in the Dutch East Indies : their legal and social position / Heleen C. Gall -- Women without men : widows and spinsters in Britain and France in the eighteenth century / Olwen Hufton -- Noble widows between fortune and family / Yme Kuiper -- Ultimate journey : Satī and widowhood in India / Lourens P. van den Bosch -- Widows in Islam / Willy Jansen -- Widows hidden from view : the disappearance of mourning dress among Dutch widows in the twentieth century / Geertje van Os -- Widows in western history : a select bibliography / Frouke Veenstra and Kirsten van der Ploeg

ISBN:

9780415083706
0415083702

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30894571

LCCN:

94027018

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)