In her essay “Can Marriage Be Saved?,” Boston College Scholar in Residence Laura L. Garcia suggests we may be looking at marriage from the wrong perspectiv Gay Marriage as Modern Marriage ...

Hence one of the first proceedings of Cromwell’s Barebones Parliament was, in 1653, to abolish the ancient religious rites, and to institute what was unknown in modern Europe, the civil ...

Gay civil unions exist in Denmark, Norway and several other European nations. In the U.S., attempts by gays to get a marriage license date back at least to the early 1970s.

It’s wedding season again. In some primitive European countries, the month of May is still greeted with ancient traditions like the Maypole Dance, where young unmarried people dance around a ...

THE problem with modern marriage, according to conventional wisdom, is that today's couples don't make marriage their top priority and put their relationship above all else. As one of my students ...

Post-Medieval Europe (from the 16th to the 18th century), was when the patriarchal family became the entrenched norm. In this context, arranging marriages for women was a very important social ...

Speaking of the church, the next big step in the history of marriage was the rise of Roman Catholicism in Europe. By the eighth century marriage became a church sacrament. In 1563 it was written ...

A title along the lines of "Marriage, a History: Always Tricky, Never Boring" would have been more fitting for this comprehensive book but, alas, apparently ...

Arranged marriage is a prevalent practice for people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, and many Asian and African diasporic communities living in the U.S. or Europe. A 2018 survey in India ...

Marriage based on love a very modern formula. Staff Writer. ... a view that was adopted by medieval commentators in Europe,” Coontz writes in her 2005 book, Marriage, A History: ...