Author: Tatiana Amaral
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1507188978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"You can be surprised when you realize that in some situations your new experience can becomes the best and that many times it is not what you wait for, but something bigger than that. I learned that when worth it, the new experiences can be useful and necessary. So, even you think you are taking a wrong step it can be the rightest step in all your life." Cléo is a younge writer, with many dreams, whi lives in a right life with her groom where everything is in its own place. But she wants to get married and for this she agrees with a unexpected condition: a deal in which both of them should be one month separated for having new experiences. And that is how she, even against her wishes, ends up in Las Vegas with her friends for her "extended bachelorette party". Her own desire is making the time pass faster and so, she can come back to her relationship. However, Cléo's plans are frightened when she meets Douglas, a tall guy with black hair and eyes and owner of the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. Cléo's life changes completely when she wakes up after a funny night and discover that she is married with Douglas. She cannot remember everything that happened and now she needs to run againt time for getting divorced and come back to home in time to recover her relationship with John. But, the things are not as they used to be before. Cléo and Douglas will live big adventures while they need waiting the divorce. Involved by their new feelings which came from this relation, they need to choose between forgetting the past and allow them to live this love or forget this adventure and return to their lives. Douglas knows what he wants, but Cléo has fear of allowing herself to this change. Married. And now? It is a surprising romance in which the reality is not exactly what it demonstrates. You come on too in this amazing adventure through Las Vegas.
Married, and now? My unmarriage adventures.
Author: Tatiana Amaral
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1507188978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"You can be surprised when you realize that in some situations your new experience can becomes the best and that many times it is not what you wait for, but something bigger than that. I learned that when worth it, the new experiences can be useful and necessary. So, even you think you are taking a wrong step it can be the rightest step in all your life." Cléo is a younge writer, with many dreams, whi lives in a right life with her groom where everything is in its own place. But she wants to get married and for this she agrees with a unexpected condition: a deal in which both of them should be one month separated for having new experiences. And that is how she, even against her wishes, ends up in Las Vegas with her friends for her "extended bachelorette party". Her own desire is making the time pass faster and so, she can come back to her relationship. However, Cléo's plans are frightened when she meets Douglas, a tall guy with black hair and eyes and owner of the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. Cléo's life changes completely when she wakes up after a funny night and discover that she is married with Douglas. She cannot remember everything that happened and now she needs to run againt time for getting divorced and come back to home in time to recover her relationship with John. But, the things are not as they used to be before. Cléo and Douglas will live big adventures while they need waiting the divorce. Involved by their new feelings which came from this relation, they need to choose between forgetting the past and allow them to live this love or forget this adventure and return to their lives. Douglas knows what he wants, but Cléo has fear of allowing herself to this change. Married. And now? It is a surprising romance in which the reality is not exactly what it demonstrates. You come on too in this amazing adventure through Las Vegas.
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1507188978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"You can be surprised when you realize that in some situations your new experience can becomes the best and that many times it is not what you wait for, but something bigger than that. I learned that when worth it, the new experiences can be useful and necessary. So, even you think you are taking a wrong step it can be the rightest step in all your life." Cléo is a younge writer, with many dreams, whi lives in a right life with her groom where everything is in its own place. But she wants to get married and for this she agrees with a unexpected condition: a deal in which both of them should be one month separated for having new experiences. And that is how she, even against her wishes, ends up in Las Vegas with her friends for her "extended bachelorette party". Her own desire is making the time pass faster and so, she can come back to her relationship. However, Cléo's plans are frightened when she meets Douglas, a tall guy with black hair and eyes and owner of the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. Cléo's life changes completely when she wakes up after a funny night and discover that she is married with Douglas. She cannot remember everything that happened and now she needs to run againt time for getting divorced and come back to home in time to recover her relationship with John. But, the things are not as they used to be before. Cléo and Douglas will live big adventures while they need waiting the divorce. Involved by their new feelings which came from this relation, they need to choose between forgetting the past and allow them to live this love or forget this adventure and return to their lives. Douglas knows what he wants, but Cléo has fear of allowing herself to this change. Married. And now? It is a surprising romance in which the reality is not exactly what it demonstrates. You come on too in this amazing adventure through Las Vegas.
That Most Precious Merchandise
Author: Hannah Barker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Aegean Sea. Yet the trade in Black Sea slaves provided merchants with profit and prestige; states with military recruits, tax revenue, and diplomatic influence; and households with the service of women, men, and children. Even though Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Greater Syria were the three most important strands in the web of the Black Sea slave trade, they have rarely been studied together. Examining Latin and Arabic sources in tandem, Hannah Barker shows that Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the Mediterranean shared a set of assumptions and practices that amounted to a common culture of slavery. Indeed, the Genoese, Venetian, and Mamluk slave trades were thoroughly entangled, with wide-ranging effects. Genoese and Venetian disruption of the Mamluk trade led to reprisals against Italian merchants living in Mamluk cities, while their participation in the trade led to scathing criticism by supporters of the crusade movement who demanded commercial powers use their leverage to weaken the force of Islam. Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Aegean Sea. Yet the trade in Black Sea slaves provided merchants with profit and prestige; states with military recruits, tax revenue, and diplomatic influence; and households with the service of women, men, and children. Even though Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Greater Syria were the three most important strands in the web of the Black Sea slave trade, they have rarely been studied together. Examining Latin and Arabic sources in tandem, Hannah Barker shows that Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the Mediterranean shared a set of assumptions and practices that amounted to a common culture of slavery. Indeed, the Genoese, Venetian, and Mamluk slave trades were thoroughly entangled, with wide-ranging effects. Genoese and Venetian disruption of the Mamluk trade led to reprisals against Italian merchants living in Mamluk cities, while their participation in the trade led to scathing criticism by supporters of the crusade movement who demanded commercial powers use their leverage to weaken the force of Islam. Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.
Moving Past Marriage
Author: Jaclyn Geller
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 1627782478
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A must-read for anyone who has felt they are at a disadvantage simply because they are single or unmarried. Married Americans enjoy over 1,000 benefits and entitlements that are withheld from our non-marital counterparts. Health insurance, immigration rights, tax privileges (such as the estate tax), and hiring policies favor the married. Marriage is subsidized and incentivized by the federal government. Social customs such as blockbuster weddings, subsidized honeymoons, and gifts reserved for wedded couples reify matrimony as a centering norm and further the idea that "marriage is best," a commonplace in popular psychology, where marriage-averse people are often tarred as "commitment-phobes." Despite this blatant and widespread prejudice, non-marital Americans—non-marital people—have not galvanized as a group to demand equality and inclusion. Why? Moving Past Marriage argues that it is because of our troubled relationship to history. As women's history once was, non-marital history has been buried, so that the disenfranchisement that non-marital people share in wedlock-dominated societies, as well as our remarkable, far-ranging achievements, have been hard to spot. In recovering our own history, non-marital people can become self-aware as a group and begin to challenge marriage-centric thinking and practice.
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 1627782478
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A must-read for anyone who has felt they are at a disadvantage simply because they are single or unmarried. Married Americans enjoy over 1,000 benefits and entitlements that are withheld from our non-marital counterparts. Health insurance, immigration rights, tax privileges (such as the estate tax), and hiring policies favor the married. Marriage is subsidized and incentivized by the federal government. Social customs such as blockbuster weddings, subsidized honeymoons, and gifts reserved for wedded couples reify matrimony as a centering norm and further the idea that "marriage is best," a commonplace in popular psychology, where marriage-averse people are often tarred as "commitment-phobes." Despite this blatant and widespread prejudice, non-marital Americans—non-marital people—have not galvanized as a group to demand equality and inclusion. Why? Moving Past Marriage argues that it is because of our troubled relationship to history. As women's history once was, non-marital history has been buried, so that the disenfranchisement that non-marital people share in wedlock-dominated societies, as well as our remarkable, far-ranging achievements, have been hard to spot. In recovering our own history, non-marital people can become self-aware as a group and begin to challenge marriage-centric thinking and practice.
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300
Author: Elisabeth van Houts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192519743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192519743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.
The Unwedding
Author: Ally Condie
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538757605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “Our June Reese’s Book Club pick is the perfect summer read!!! The Unwedding by Ally Condie opens with a wedding at a gorgeous resort in Big Sur... but everything begins to fall apart when the main character Ellery discovers a dead body the morning of the ceremony.” – Reese Witherspoon The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author: a recent divorcee's exclusive Big Sur resort vacation unravels when she discovers a dead body on the day of a wedding, in this “clever, witty and fast-paced whodunit.” (Harlan Coben) Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. Where better to celebrate a marriage, a family, and a life together than at one of the most stunning places on earth? But now she’s traveling solo. To add insult to injury, there’s a wedding at Broken Point scheduled during her stay. Ellery remembers how it felt to be on the cusp of everything new and wonderful, with a loved and certain future glimmering just ahead. Now, she isn’t certain of anything except for her love for her kids and her growing realization that this place, though beautiful, is unsettling. When Ellery discovers the body of the groom floating in the pool in the rain, she realizes that she is not the only one whose future is no longer guaranteed. Before the police can reach Broken Point, a mudslide takes out the road to the resort, leaving the guests trapped. When another guest dies, it’s clear something horrible is brewing. Everyone at Broken Point has a secret. And everyone has a shadow. Including Ellery.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538757605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “Our June Reese’s Book Club pick is the perfect summer read!!! The Unwedding by Ally Condie opens with a wedding at a gorgeous resort in Big Sur... but everything begins to fall apart when the main character Ellery discovers a dead body the morning of the ceremony.” – Reese Witherspoon The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author: a recent divorcee's exclusive Big Sur resort vacation unravels when she discovers a dead body on the day of a wedding, in this “clever, witty and fast-paced whodunit.” (Harlan Coben) Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. Where better to celebrate a marriage, a family, and a life together than at one of the most stunning places on earth? But now she’s traveling solo. To add insult to injury, there’s a wedding at Broken Point scheduled during her stay. Ellery remembers how it felt to be on the cusp of everything new and wonderful, with a loved and certain future glimmering just ahead. Now, she isn’t certain of anything except for her love for her kids and her growing realization that this place, though beautiful, is unsettling. When Ellery discovers the body of the groom floating in the pool in the rain, she realizes that she is not the only one whose future is no longer guaranteed. Before the police can reach Broken Point, a mudslide takes out the road to the resort, leaving the guests trapped. When another guest dies, it’s clear something horrible is brewing. Everyone at Broken Point has a secret. And everyone has a shadow. Including Ellery.
The Routledge History of Monarchy
Author: Elena Woodacre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351787306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1031
Book Description
The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351787306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1031
Book Description
The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history.
Rethinking Reform in the Latin West, 10th to Early 12th Century
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004681086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes. In 11 thematic chapters it takes stock of the current state of research and offers suggestions to deepen our understanding of the ideological, institutional, and cultural dynamics at play. Contributors are Julia Barrow, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Gordon Blennemann, Katy Cubitt, Nicolangelo D'Acunto, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Ludger Körntgen, Rutger Kramer, Brigitte Meijns, Diane Reilly, Rachel Stone, and Steven Vanderputten.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004681086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes. In 11 thematic chapters it takes stock of the current state of research and offers suggestions to deepen our understanding of the ideological, institutional, and cultural dynamics at play. Contributors are Julia Barrow, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Gordon Blennemann, Katy Cubitt, Nicolangelo D'Acunto, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Ludger Körntgen, Rutger Kramer, Brigitte Meijns, Diane Reilly, Rachel Stone, and Steven Vanderputten.
Carnal Knowledge
Author: Martin Ingram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107179874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107179874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation.
The Fires of Lust
Author: Katherine Harvey
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much—or too little—sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much—or too little—sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517
Author: Wolfgang P. Müller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108962440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy, Catalonia, and Castile, this study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P. Müller draws attention to the existence of public penitential proceedings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the difference in demand, as well as highlighting variations in how individuals obtained written documentation of their marital status. Integrating legal and theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals about both institutions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108962440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy, Catalonia, and Castile, this study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P. Müller draws attention to the existence of public penitential proceedings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the difference in demand, as well as highlighting variations in how individuals obtained written documentation of their marital status. Integrating legal and theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals about both institutions.