...During the Middle Ages Courtly Love was appeared to be very strict as it was practiced all across Europe. Marriages were arranged by the parents during this time in order to increase the status and wealth of each family. Courtly Love had very little to do with love in the middle Ages. Courtly love is a medieval literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Courtly love was practiced in the courts but in tales it was shown through knights. But, where there were courtly love you, there were also sexual desires. In the middle ages, women were seen to be more lustful than the men which is different from modern day which men are seen to be more lustful than women. The knight’s, the wife of bath’s, and the miller’s tale are...
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...It Takes A Lot To Keep Marriage Alive Family is something of major importance throughout a life, but I don’t think that we realize its importance until we are in the Middle Age Years of our life. Middle age according to our text is defined as the ages from 35 to 64( 489). I feel that people today are becoming established in their own lives before bringing a baby into the world. That is why some of the problems that once occurred in Early Adulthood when it came to marriage is now occurring in Middle Adulthood. I never would have considered myself in the category of Middle Adulthood until I studied this part of the book. In my opinion the most critical dynamic facing American families in Middle Adulthood is that of Marital Happiness and keeping your marriage alive.The happiness in a marriage can be compromised for many different reasons, some of which can be adjusted and some of which there is no adjustment. The first thing that comes to mind is communication. Communication is a very important key to every relationship, especially marriage. When communication is lost then problems and feelings are not discussed and things begin to build and then when the partner has had enough it erupts and if communication had been open in the first place then it would have been taken care of before it got this bad. This is something that can definitely be adjusted to make things better. Another thing that usually compromises a marriage is children. Children are in constant need...
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...Marriage in Medieval Times Marriage: a union of two loved ones. In medieval ages women did not have a choice about who to marry. The arrangement was done by the children’s parents, in those ages children were married at a young age girls were as young as 12 and boys were as young as 17. Medieval society’s expectation of marriage was quite different from the expectations of marriage now days. Men were sometimes able to choose their wives. Marriage back then was not based on love, but actually a political arrangement. Amt, Emilie. Life in a Medieval Village. 5 November 2013 <educators.medievaltimes.com>. There were a lot of reasons why marriage could be prohibited as opposed to today; one of the reasons was if the two were closely related it was prohibited for them to get married. If the boy and the girl had taken any vows before it was also prohibited for them to be married. Other reasons included rape, adultery and incest. Carter, Rachelle. Marriage in medieval times. 5 11 2013 <http://www.dfwx.com/medieval_cult.html>. In those times there were two types of marriages: Secular and the ecclesiastical type. Secular was meant to be a protection for the social order. Ecclesiastical marriage was to protection the divine order. Secular marriage was most common during the middle ages, because marriage was seen as a civil contract between to families. It was seen as an exchange of property and money. Women were seen as part of the property being exchanged. ...
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...Child Brides of the Middle East Verses American Courtship Sadarodawn ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Gregory Miller March 13, 3013 Child Brides of the Middle East Verses American Courtship When we begin to look at other cultures, we must try to see it from their perspective. By putting ourselves in someone else's shoes, or an emic perspective, although rarely ever easy, we are able to see things differently. One must put away their own beliefs, opinions, and emotions, along with the assumption that their own culture is the "right" or "better" culture. Today we are going to take a look at my own culture through an outsider's point of view know as an etic point of view while examining that culture from an insider's perspective. We will be covering the arranged child bride marriages of Middle Eastern countries, specifically Pakistan, compared to more complex love matches that are made here in the United States. In this, we will note that while courtship and marriage in United States may be more complex having less health and social risks, child marriage is still the preference in Pakistan. Part I In this part of the paper, we are looking at marriage and courtship in the United States. In the 1930s through the 1940s whirlwind courtships were common. After World War II couples were getting married in their 20s. Today the average age for a male is 28 years of age and 26 years of age for a female to get married. (USA Today 2010) " When I went to...
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...European women in the late Middle Ages did not hold considerable power. They were usually passed from the control of their fathers to the control of their husbands. Certain women, however, did not follow this path, which led to their marginalization in society and often to their turn to prostitution. Since prostitution is widely believed to be the oldest profession in history, one might imagine that it was considered an acceptable profession in society. However, prostitution was an area of great debate during the Middle Ages, as it was a practice which was considered morally repugnant, but its value in society could also be seen. Considering the large influence that Christianity had on medieval European society, the church’s opinion of prostitution was adopted by society at large. Since Christianity valued virginity in women so highly, it would seem natural that the church would be against prostitution and would try to eliminate it as a profession in society. However, in practice, the medieval church did not go to great lengths to punish prostitutes. Considering this fact, what was Christianity’s and more generally society’s attitude toward prostitution? In what ways did the church and the legal authorities face the morally unacceptable practice of prostitution? Based on the laws of the late Medieval period and evidence of the abundance of prostitutes in Europe, it is clear that society had an ambiguous standpoint towards prostitution, denouncing it as immoral while simultaneously...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Francisco Del Angel PSY/280 February 15, 2013 Shannon Hilligoss Early and Middle Adulthood In this paper, early and Middle adulthood will be compared and contrasted. It will show how the decisions made earlier in age may or may not affect people. This paper will go through the changes of social and intimate relationships in these two different age frames as well as the various role changes people in this age group might encounter. It’ll talk about health problems and the reasons for these problems. In early adult hood the age range is 18-25. Around this time frame people tend to break away from social ties and begin to become independent from their parents. They move out the house and go to college or simply get their own apartment to gain ultimate independence. They choose not to be committed to anyone, like a serious girlfriend to avoid marriage or children. It was thought that in order to be intimate you were to be serious with someone and possibly get married and have children. However early adults are beginning to discover that marriage and parenthood are only two of several ways paths to go through when in search of intimacy. One of the main sources of intimacy for emerging adults is friendship. This is especially true for those who do in fact break away from their parents and choose not to be married or have children of their own. Usually men and women prefer friends of the same sex so they can participate in same sex activities to...
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...The changes in sexuality for men and women, sexuality are an important function in middle adulthood. Men tend to function sexually in a satisfying marriage and intimacy when they are overall pleased with their partner. Marital satisfaction probably increases the pleasure derived from sexual intercourse, and a satisfying sexual relationship probably increases the satisfaction derived from a marriage (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Women are much more likely to be orgasmic in very happy marriages than in less happy marriages (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, p.426). Men and women reach their sexual desire at two different ages, a man’s sex drive reaches its peak at a relatively young age, whereas a woman’s tends to peak in her late 30s or early 40s (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Other changes involved with couples experiencing difficulty with their sex drive, is having children, many adjustments, pressures, and problems can be associated with parenthood (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Men engagement is in extramarital affairs decreases as men age, on the other hand, women extramarital relationships increases, of the thought men reaches their sexual peaks at an earlier age. Other changes that will cause an extramarital affair: reasons due to unsatisfying sex drive within the marriage or illnesses of the partner, or dysfunction in the relationship. Following a divorce, a man can have several partners, and women are more likely to an active sex life with more partners then...
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...According to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, there are eight stages in life. The stage I chose was Gerativity-vs.-stagnation (middle adulthood). This stage happens around the ages of 40-60 yrs. old. During this stage of life, people typically experience a midlife transition, which the notion in life is not under ending becomes more important. In some cases they may lead to midlife crisis although, the passage to middle age is typically relatively calm. Have you ever heard of the word “midlife crisis”? Men and women in their late 30s through late 50s suffer from it. The word midlife crisis is the most common phrase we use to describe middle-aged adulthood. Midlife crisis in men As men approaches middle aged some men may go through life changes. Men feel they are limited in life fearing that they are close to death. They also have the fear of aging and wonders if their marriages had run its course. This is the time men start to feel that they have not accomplish their dreams, and starts to wander off in their careers and marriages. When a man hit their midlife stages they tend to dress young, maybe buy a toupee buy big flashing red cars, and start having affairs with women half their age. Middle age is the time when people should be a positive time of life and full of new possibilities. • Job changes • Fear of aging • Not satisfied to accomplish their dreams I would choose this topic in this article to write a research paper because it was very interesting....
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Paper Kimberly Smith PSY/280 August 17, 2015 Mrs. Barch Early and Middle Adulthood Paper Early to middle adulthood is more of a challenging ever-changing process. People in their early and middle adulthood go through transitions such as deciding to go to college, starting a family, getting married and establishing social and health-affecting habits. As a man and woman grow, these different changes will help him or her to form a wide variety of views on life. How social and intimate relationship has changed over time and identification of various roles changes during early and middle age. Lastly the direct and future influence the healthy and unhealthy behaviors experienced during early and middle adulthood. Social and Intimate relationship change In early adulthood, it’s a time of independence, identity seeking, and lifestyle forming. During this time, kids are graduating leaving their parents home starting new relationships and developing a life of their own. Erikson believed that people need constant contact with others throughout their lives, from birth to death, whether that contact is romantic intimacy or a relationship with friends and family. The time has changed where young adults were getting married fresh out of high school. Now middle adults are waiting until mid thirty’s are longer to have children and get married. Parents who waited longer to have children and who had highly educated degrees have a greater loss in happiness following...
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...The Wife of Bath is a feminist because she confronts three serious social issues that exemplify the extreme oppression women faced throughout the Middle Ages. Firstly, The Wife of Bath addresses the negativity associated with women and sex. She begins by informing her audience that she is sexually experienced because she has been with five different men. During the Middle Ages it was widely believed that women were not allowed to have sexual relations outside of marriage and if they were convicted of adultery they were to be punished. However, The Wife of Bath defends the amount of times she had been married in order to advocate for being able to have multiple sex partners. By working within this social framework, The Wife of Bath demonstrates that if a woman marries many different men, she can have sex with several partners. As a result, this clever use of sex...
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...explains what stage of development the subject is revealing and how this stage reflects this person’s life situation. This scenario is about a woman considered to be in the start of the middle age or prime of life. She graduated college to work in marketing. She patiently waited to marry her college love while he finished school. Settled in to a marriage where her husband was not ready for a family or children. She waited for her husband to settle down but the amount of time stressed the marriage till it ended in divorce. Now she finds herself at 43 no marriage, lonely, no children to raise and teach, and growing weary in a career she has lost interest in. Her sense of responsibility has her taking care of elderly mom even though they have never got along. At this point in her life she knows she needs to make changes but unsure of the direction she wants to go. She starts thinking of things that might change her situation but nothing feels right. Dating at her age seems awkward. Going back to school could be an option but not sure of anything she might be interested in. Not accomplishing what most other people have by this point in her life leaves her feeling of total failure. Theory The best theory analysis that fits our scenario lies in the Young Adulthood, Middle Age, and Old Age stages of Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development. Psychosocial Stage 7 of Erikson’s Theory is described as generatively vs stagnation. To understand why, we need to know what they mean...
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...infants more likely to be irritable or sickly, they are also more likely to die before their first birthday. * Children raised in poverty tend to miss school more often because of illness. These children also have a much higher rate of accidents than do other children, and they are twice as likely to have impaired vision and hearing, iron deficiency anemia, and higher than normal levels of lead in the blood, which can impair brain function. Levels of stress in the family have also been shown to correlate with economic circumstances. Studies during economic recessions indicate that job loss and subsequent poverty are associated with violence in families, including child and elder abuse. Poor families experience much more stress than middle-class families. Besides financial uncertainty, these families are more likely to be exposed to series of negative events and “bad luck,” including illness, depression, eviction, job loss, criminal victimization, and family death. Parents who experience hard economic times may become excessively punitive and erratic, issuing demands backed by insults, threats, and corporal punishment. Homelessness, or extreme poverty, carries with it a particularly strong set of risks for families, especially children. Compared to children living in poverty but having homes, homeless children are less likely to receive proper nutrition and immunization. Hence, they experience more health problems. Homeless women experience higher rates of low-birth-weight...
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...to be believed ideally in Victoria times. Newly emerged urban jobs formed an urban living style that no one had lived before, it prompted a change in the ways in which appropriate male and female roles were perceived. In particular, the notion of separate spheres, which woman was in the private sphere of the home and hearth, man was in the public sphere of business, politics and sociability - came to influence the choices and experiences of all women. The Victorian era from 1837 to 1901 is characterized as the domestic age, idealized by Queen Victoria, who came to represent a sort of femininity that was centered on the family, motherhood, and respectability. Accompanied by Albert, Prince Consort, her beloved husband, and by her many children in Balmoral Castle, Victoria became an icon of late 19th-century middle-class femininity and domesticity. In fact, Queen Victoria came to be seen as the very model of marital stability and domestic virtue. Her marriage to Albert represented the ideal of marital harmony. She...
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...New Art Forms of the High Middle Ages Throughout history Europe has experienced countless changes in culture and other aspects. The Middle Ages, or Medieval Period, lasted from around 800 into the 1400’s (349). This period can be subdivided into three categories: early, high, and late. The Middle Ages brought about changes in religion, law, and daily life. Changes also occurred in the arts with the introduction of Gothic architecture and troubadour poetry. Although the Middle Ages began as a time of violence, the emergence of Gothic architecture and troubadour poetry are examples of devotion and expression. During the tenth and eleventh centuries cathedrals were constructed (367). The style of the cathedrals resembled Roman architecture, which was the preceding time period. (367). Features of Roman architecture included “massive walls, rounded stones arches, and small windows” (367). By the twelfth century, this new style gained the name “Gothic.” The Gothic style introduced new engineering improvements and emphasized more emotional expression. The structures of Gothic architecture consisted of pointed arches, high ceilings, and flying buttresses (367). A flying buttress carried the weight of the roof. “Midieval Archtechture” states: “The walls of Gothic buildings could be thinner than previous styles of architecture because the weight of the roof was supported by the arches rather than by the walls. The pointed Gothic arch provided greater flexibility could also span...
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...The practice of marrying girls at a young age is most common in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. However, in the Middle East, North Africa and other parts of Asia, marriage at or shortly after puberty is common among those living traditional lifestyles. There are also specific parts of West and East Africa and of South Asia where marriages much earlier than puberty are not unusual, while marriages of girls between the ages of 16 and 18 are common in parts of Latin America and in pockets of Eastern Europe. One problem in assessing the prevalence of early marriages is that so many are unregistered and unofficial and are not therefore counted as part of any standard data collection system. Very little country data exist about marriages under the age of 14, even less about those below age 10. An exception is Bangladesh, where the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 1996-97 reported that 5 per cent of 10- 14 year-olds were married. 18 Small-scale studies and anecdotal information fill in the picture. They imply that marriage at a very young age is more widespread than country data suggest. National statistics often disguise significant rates of very early marriage in some regions and among some sub-populations. In the Indian state of Rajasthan, for example, a 1993 survey of 5,000 women revealed that 56 per cent had married before age 15, and of these, 17 per cent were married before they were 10. 19 A 1998 survey in Madhya Pradesh found that nearly...
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