18 juillet 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Pascal Firges, « The Tacit Rules of Female Adultery: Framing Marital and Extramarital Relationships in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Court Society », Presses universitaires du Septentrion, ID : 10.4000/books.septentrion.132934
Marriage is a widespread social institution, one that reaches very far back in time. In fact, it seems to be so omnipresent in human societies, both past and present, that one might be tempted to consider it a timeless institution. Yet marriage is a cultural entity and, as such, its actual practices are always constructed, negotiated, and open to renegotiation and change. As a consequence, marriage cultures vary drastically from place to place and from time to time. Considering the intrinsic ...