Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The : Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Pee, Christian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Weddings in literature.
Tang Dynasty (China)
Song Dynasty (China)
Marriage customs and rites.
REFERENCE > Weddings.
Noces dans la litterature.
Mariage > Rites et ceremonies > Chine.
Marriage customs and rites > China.
China.
Chine > Histoire > 960-1279 (Dynastie des Song)
Chine > Histoire > 618-907 (Dynastie des Tang)
China > History > Song dynasty, 960-1279.
China > History > Tang dynasty, 618-907.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The practice of the text
  • Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity
  • Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object
  • Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man
  • Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice
  • Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history.

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