Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. The book shows how difficult it is to define the 'typical' widow, as the experiences of these women have differed so widely, not simply because of their different time periods and locations, but also becuase of their varying legal and religious status and economic conditions.
The study is diverse with subjects ranging from:
*Hindu wives who followed their husbands to the pyre
*widows who were burned as witches
*and widows who had to become prostitutes to stay alive.
The book also explores Jesus's interest in widows and the experience of some well-known widows, such as Mohammed's first wife.
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Between Poverty and the Pyre
Moments in the History of Widowhood
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- EDITORS’ NOTE
- 1 WIDOWS’ WORLDS: REPRESENTATIONS AND REALITIES
- 2 THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE WIDOW IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
- 3 PAUPER OR PATRONESS: THE WIDOW IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
- 4 WIDOWS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
- 5 WIDOWS AND THE LAW: THE LEGAL POSITION OF WIDOWS IN THE DUTCH REPUBLIC DURING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
- PLATES
- 6 ‘EUROPEAN’ WIDOWS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES: THEIR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POSITION
- 7 WOMEN WITHOUT MEN: WIDOWS AND SPINSTERS IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 8 NOBLE WIDOWS BETWEEN FORTUNE AND FAMILY
- 9 THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY: SATI AND WIDOWHOOD IN INDIA
- 10 WIDOWS IN ISLAM
- 11 WIDOWS HIDDEN FROM VIEW: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MOURNING DRESS AMONG DUTCH WIDOWS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 12 WIDOWS IN WESTERN HISTORY: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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