# 📎 Topic: Marriage ## Literature Notes - [[Brotherhood of Kings by Amanda Podany]] does a lot with how the civilizations in the Fertile Crescent treated princesses as a diplomatic corps, as opposed to Egyptians, who found the idea of "marrying off" their daughters appalling (but were happy to accept the daughters of nearby kings as "tribute") ^7dbace - There is a story in [[The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor]] about how marriages between Scythian women and non-Scythian men helped form new tribes. - [[The Horse The Wheel And Language by David Anthony#ch08p153 Wives|The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David Anthony]] addresses the behaviors of wives who marry into foreign tribes. - [[The Civilizations of Africa by Christopher Ehret]] addresses the impact of different frameworks of marriage on various African civilizations, e.g. particularly: * [[The Civilizations of Africa by Christopher Ehret#ch06p245 Cattle Keepers and Kings 900-1300 CE|why families would marry daughters off to clan chiefs]]. * [[The Civilizations of Africa by Christopher Ehret#ch05p228 Social and Political Change in West Africa's First Commercial Age|African craftsman created a de facto caste system via exclusive marriage]]. ## Relevant Articles - [Curious Disasters: Failed Marriages in Folklore](https://eleanorkonik.com/failed-marriages-folklore/) - In [[Haegemans on Elissa of Carthage]], I discuss the mystery of how Elissa allegedly landed on Cyprus and somehow acquired 80 young girls as wives for the nobles who were following her from Tyre. - [[The Diplomacy of Marriage]] - *pending* ## Relevant Newsletters - [[backup_before_conversion/2020.07.20 Inbreeding]] discusses inbred dynasties like the Egyptians and the Hapsburgs. ## Atomic Notes - [[marriage in-round creates castes]] - [[marriage allows leaders to cement alliances]] - [[common law marriage in Rome]] - [[marriages forged in times of economic stress last longer]] - [[Egyptian princesses were less useful than Mesopotamian ones]] ## Questions - [[rAskHistorians#Which African Groups Practiced Marriage of People Who Didn't Speak Their Language]] - What is the state of exogamy in the west (Tom, Taylor, Jenn, Andrew, mail order brides, etc) and how does it relate to historical role of marriage? ## References - [Where and how did the idea of marriage originate?](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15pnk1/where_and_how_did_the_idea_of_marriage_originate/) - [Why were medieval noblewomen expected to marry incredibly young?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/400vr9/why_were_medieval_noblewomen_expected_to_marry/cyqk4qh) - [Chinese folktale about the woman who married a horse](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1178945) / this is apparently an etiological myth for the origin of the silkworm goddess and cult in China.