Showing papers on "Love marriage published in 1994"
01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, Owein and Gereint chronicle the process by which a group of independent kingdoms becomes subject to a central government, a process that focuses on the major concerns of the rulers of Gwynedd, most notably those of Llewelyn ap Iowerth: the desire to justify a feudal Wales united under a single monarch, the attempt to standardize law codes and introduce a central judicial system, and the need to manipulate political alliances through a careful program of advantageous marriages.
Abstract: “When Arthur Held Court in Caer Llion: Love, Marriage, and the Politics of Centralization in Gereint and Owein." Owein and Gereint chronicle the process by which a group of independent kingdoms becomes subject to a central government, a process that focuses on the major concerns of the rulers of Gwynedd, most notably those of Llewelyn ap Iowerth: the desire to justify a feudal Wales united under a single monarch, the attempt to standardize law codes and introduce a central judicial system, and the need to manipulate political alliances through a careful program of advantageous marriages. The romances’ call to unification profoundly affects their telling of the basic stories common to them and their French counterparts. The Welsh narratives systematically displace the French's discussion of fin afmor in favor of tales in which marriage functions as a metaphor for political alliance. Thus, these tales present not only an argument for central government but also a vindication of the means by which Llewelyn s...
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of sib size, birth order and possession of older brothers, older sisters, younger brothers, or younger sisters on first marriage formation in Japan were investigated.
Abstract: This study attempts to clarify the effects of sib size, birth order and the possession of older brothers, older sisters, younger brothers, or younger sisters on first marriage formation in Japan Twelve sociological, demographic and psychological hypotheses are presented and examined with regard to their effects on three outcomes in each age segment: getting married through arranged marriage, getting married through love marriage and staying never-married P Allison's discrete-time event-history analysis (using multinomial logit model) is applied to the merged data of never-married and first-married persons aged 18-34 from the 1982 national fertility survey conducted by the Institute of Population Problems in order to simultaneously examine the effects of sibling configuration on both the timing and the two mate selection methods of first marriage (first marriage probability by mate selection method) as well as the effects of interaction of a set of sibling configuration variables with another set, age, and prenuptial living arrangements The results seem to support the Parental Control Hypothesis and the Acquaintance Opportunity Hypoth esis for both sexes and the Normative Order Hypothesis for females Other hypotheses including the Household Crowding Hypotheses and the Demand for Children Hypothe sis also seem to have limited support
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