While Game of Thrones showed the worst side of the bedding ceremony in its third season, the historical tradition is a little ...

Shivangini Tandon’s Life Histories in Mughal India moves past sterile court chronicles to reveal how personal rivalries, ...

Devotional writing was a medieval practice that entangled reading with feeling and made meaning collaboratively, over time, ...

Welsh poets’ use of the language of love and intimacy to describe their relationships with powerful patrons is being explored as part of research at Aberystwyth University. The research project is ...

My father, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Drazin (1906-1976), published his book Marriage Made in Heaven in 1958. The book, which provides a frank discussion on sex and marriage from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, ...

For medieval peasants, marriage wasn’t about ceremonies, churches, or paperwork - it was about whether a couple could build a working household. Church law ultimately ruled that mutual consent was the ...

My father, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Drazin (1906-1976), published his book Marriage Made in Heaven in 1958. The book, which provides a frank discussion on sex and marriage from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, ...

Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness". But why did they ...

Medieval nobles absolutely had a marital bed — but that didn’t mean total privacy. The bedchamber was the heart of the household, and trusted servants, relatives, or attendants often slept in the same ...

A study by the University of New Hampshire challenges common assumptions about aging and intimacy, revealing that many single adults aged 60 to 83 continue to prioritize sexual activity in their ...