Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History of Widowhood by Lourens P. Van Den Bosch, Jan Nicolaas Bremmer

Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History of Widowhood

Lourens P. Van Den Bosch, Jan Nicolaas Bremmer

258 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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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...

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