CAS CL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contubernium, Dowry, Evil Eye
7 Dec 2016
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Age - 12 (though could become engaged at 7) Men could get married after they finished the 3 stages of education. Groom, bride, fathers under whose power the bride and groom are. Amount of money that bride"s family gives to the groom"s family in order to offset cost of wedding/other things. Manus (legal power) - 2 kinds of marriage. Stay under manus of your paterfamilia (father) Most common marriage was marriage w/o manus. All you need for a wedding is consent. Really a coming of age ritual for women. Any toys or dolls that child played with are devoted to gods. Shows that period of girlhood is now over. Only wore yellow veil if you were a roman woman when you got married. Signifies movement from one house to another house--from father"s house to. Aunt, older relative, someone who was married before. To ward off jealousy of evil eye. Wives expected to have voice of their own.
