Russian Peasant Bride Theft

Russian Peasant Bride Theft
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 160
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781000362039
ISBN-13 : 1000362035
Rating : 4/5 (035 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Russian Peasant Bride Theft by : John Bushnell

Download or read book Russian Peasant Bride Theft written by John Bushnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction, capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was practised in large part by, but not exclusively by, Old Believers, the schismatics who rejected the Church reforms of the mid-seventeenth century and shunned contact with the Orthodox Church; and that the point of bride theft, where the bride was often a willing party, often married secretly at night by an Orthodox priest acting illegally, was to absolve the bride and her parents of the responsibility for engaging in a formal Orthodox ritual which Old Believers regarded as sinful. The book also considers how bride theft originated much earlier in Russia and was a continuing tradition in some places, and how all this fitted into the Russian peasant economy. Throughout the book provides rich details of particular bride theft cases, of Russian peasant life, and of Russian folklore, in particular bridal laments.


Russian Peasant Bride Theft Related Books

Russian Peasant Bride Theft
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: John Bushnell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-15 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction, capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century t
Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: John Bushnell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-09 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

GET EBOOK

John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the
Russian Folk Art
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Alison Hilton
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

GET EBOOK

Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the
Russia in Manchuria
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Paul Dukes
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-31 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Manchuria, the name given to China’s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers, has been contested by China, Russia and Japan in particular over many centurie
Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution, 1905
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Gerald D. Surh
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-28 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

GET EBOOK

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the widespread and violent pogroms against Jews which took place in the Russian Empire in 1905. It bri