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Le marché de la rencontre n'a pas attendu Meetic, Tinder ou Grindr pour prospérer. Tout au plus l'ère numérique lui a-t-elle conféré, en même temps qu'un regain de vitalité, une légitimité nouvelle. Pendant près de deux siècles, ce domaine d'activité de réputation douteuse a fait de la discrétion une qualité première. Son entremise est longtemps demeurée taboue dans les familles. L'examen des registres d'agences matrimoniales et de la presse dédiée aux annonces permet néanmoins de lever le voile. Par-delà les figures chères au vaudeville - ambitieux coureurs de dots, parents autoritaires, oies blanches ou vieilles filles rêveuses -, qui sont les créateurs de ces agences, quels sont les services qu'ils proposent et quelle en est la clientèle ? Du Courrier de l'hymen dans les années 1790 au Chasseur français (qui revendique 4,5 millions de naissances), les annonces sont aussi la source d'une histoire de l'ordinaire, à hauteur des hommes et des femmes à la recherche d'amour et de bons partis. Par leurs silences entendus et leurs connotations équivoques, elles nous apprennent ce qui, selon les époques, est communément perçu comme admis, désirable ou au contraire inacceptable. Elles sont ainsi des indices de la transformation des sociétés, qu'il s'agisse de l'équilibre entre enjeux économiques et romantiques, du poids des stéréotypes de genre ou des failles grandissantes de la société bourgeoise patriarcale.

Marriage brokerage --- Mate selection

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"In this addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series, a leading Catholic teacher offers a biblical theology of marriage rooted in the Old and New Testaments"--

Marriage --- Marriage --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church --- Biblical teaching

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What does it mean to be in love while at war? This Element demonstrates that whether rebel groups commit themselves to marriage, bar it entirely, or reinterpret the ceremonies and practices associated with marriage, their decision has important implications for both the rebel organization and individual members. This Element contributes to the literature on gender and politics by demonstrating that rebel marriages are an under-appreciated driver of gendered conflict and post-conflict dynamics. This Element introduces frameworks for understanding how rebel groups approach the issue of marriage, suggesting that variation between and within rebel groups over time is related to not only the rebels' political project, but also the anticipated effect of marriage on cohesion and retention, and the rebels' logistical concerns. Furthermore, the Element unpacks how wartime rebel marriages can complicate or improve women's prospects for post-conflict reintegration by shaping whether rebel wives are depoliticized, distrusted, or reclaimed.

Non-state actors (International relations) --- Marriage customs and rites.

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Unlocks the ascetic conundrum in Paul's discussion of singleness in 1 Corinthians 7 leveraging material sources and Epicureanism. This book offers a fresh understanding of singleness in Paul's day that clarifies his argument and portrays a picture of Paul's audience that resonates with our modern world.

Asceticism --- Marriage --- Single people --- Christianity. --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Religious life --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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"This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources. Historians of early Christianity have grown increasingly aware that written sources display an enthusiasm for asceticism and sexual renunciation that was far from representative of the lives of most early Christians. Often called a "silent majority," the married laity in fact left behind a significant body of work in the material record. Particularly in and around Rome, they commissioned and used such objects as sarcophagi, paintings, glass vessels, finger rings, luxury silver, other jewellery items, gems, and seals that bore their portraits and other iconographic forms of self-representation. This study is the first to undertake a sustained exploration of these material sources in the context of early Christian discourses and practices related to marriage, sexuality, and celibacy. Reading this visual evidence increases understanding of the population who created it, the religious commitments they asserted, and the comparatively moderate forms of piety they set forth as meritorious alternatives to the ascetic ideal. In their visual rhetoric, these artifacts and images comprise additional voices in Late Antique conversations about idealized ways of Christian life, and ultimately provide a fuller picture of the early Christian world. Plentifully illustrated with photographs and drawings, this volume provides readers access to primary material evidence. Such evidence, like textual sources, require critical interpretation; this study sets forth a careful methodology for iconographic analysis and applies it to identify the potential intentions of patrons and artists and the perceptions of viewers. It compares iconography to literary sources and ritual practices as part of the interpretive process, clarifying the ways images had a rhetorical edge and contributed to larger conversations. Accessibly written, The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity is of interest to students and scholars working on Late Antiquity, early Christian and late Roman social history, marriage and celibacy in early Christianity, and early Christian, Roman, and Byzantine art"--

Married people in art --- Laity --- Art, Early Christian --- Marriage --- Art and society --- Themes, motives --- Religious aspects --- Christianity