Bride theft

Russian peasant bride theft

by Bushnell, John

fromRoutledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Euro…

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"This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction and capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was prac…

Russian peasant bride theft

by Bushnell, John

fromRoutledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Euro…

0 Type: Book

"This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction, capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was practis…

The term fuitina in Sicilian dialect is a word used to describe a form of abduction, and is a variation of the more formal Italian term fuga, meaning a flight or escape. Fuitina, was essentially a sanctioned bride theft. Often, after the abduction of a woman, the abductor would …