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Love riddles, couple formation, and local identity in Eastern France
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The purpose of this article is to show how specific aspects of the popular culture of Lorraine (eastern France) can be linked to distinctive features of the region's historical demography after the Thirty Years War. It examines two customs associated with courtship: the dâyage, an exchange of riddle-like verses between groups of men and women at winter wakes, and the dônage, mock banns of marriage called by young men on the first Sunday of Lent. Both will be shown to have encouraged particula...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ "Churchill College, Cambridge", "Royal Society of Edinburgh/Caledonian Research Fund"
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Hopkin, D
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Family History Journal website
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 339-363
- Publication date:
- 2003-07-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-5473
- ISSN:
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0363-1990
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:4272
- Deposit date:
- 2010-10-15
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- Sage Publications
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Family History, 28(3), July 2003 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2003 SAGE Publications. N.B. Dr Hopkin is now based at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
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