Curious Customs

Curious Customs
Author: Tad Tuleja
Publisher: Stonesong
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0985434392

Why do we blow out candles on birthday cakes? Use striped poles to symbolize a barber? Throw rice at weddings? Find out in CURIOUS CUSTOMS: The Stories Behind 296 Popular American Rituals.Whether you want a new look at old habits or just love wacky facts and intriguing information, CURIOUS CUSTOMS is full of unusual, surprising bits of information that you'll love to learn and share.

Curious Customs of Sex & Marriage

Curious Customs of Sex & Marriage
Author: George Ryley Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1995
Genre: Marriage customs and rites
ISBN: 9781859580271

"The ceremony of marriage is central to every culture, and there are more superstitions and strange rites attached to it than most other cultural institutions. This books gathers extraordinary facts about marriage from around the world." -- Publisher's description

The Wedding Complex

The Wedding Complex
Author: Elizabeth Freeman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2002-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822329893

DIVA queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed./div

A History of Courtship

A History of Courtship
Author: Tania O'Donnell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1510708707

Tania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a sighing swain. The book takes a historical approach to the problem of finding a mate, with case studies of classic romantic mistakes and plenty of unusual tales. In the 14th century young men tried to impress the ladies with their footwear, donning shoes with pointed toes so long that they had to be secured with whalebone—presumably because size mattered! A History of Courtship is an entertaining and enlightening look at seduction over the centuries.