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  • Thumbnail for Marriage bed of Henry VII
    The marriage bed of Henry VII (also known as the Paradise Bed, Bed of Roses) is a carved oak four-post bedstead bought in a dilapidated condition at an...
    17 KB (2,306 words) - 06:29, 24 May 2024
  • The Marriage Bed is a Canadian television film, directed by Martin Lavut and broadcast by CBC Television in 1986. Adapted from the novel by Constance Beresford-Howe...
    4 KB (244 words) - 17:58, 5 March 2024
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    These included: lectus cubicularis, or chamber bed, for normal sleeping lectus genialis, the marriage bed, it was much decorated, and was placed in the...
    37 KB (4,639 words) - 18:06, 21 March 2024
  • arranged marriage, forced marriage, polygamy marriage, polyandry marriage, polygyny marriage, group marriage, coverture marriage, child marriage, cousin...
    241 KB (27,409 words) - 09:01, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
    Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight...
    29 KB (3,790 words) - 19:08, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arnolfini Portrait
    figures suggests conventional 15th century views of marriage and gender roles – the woman stands near the bed and well into the room, symbolic of her role as...
    40 KB (5,472 words) - 15:37, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedding ceremony
    Bedding ceremony (category Beds)
    together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage. The purpose of the ritual...
    8 KB (1,029 words) - 00:39, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tush kyiz
    may take years to finish. The tush kyiz is hung in the yurt over the marriage bed of the couple, and symbolize their pride in their Kyrgyz tradition. The...
    2 KB (251 words) - 23:25, 22 May 2024
  • Beilager (category Marriage in Europe)
    covered in the marriage bed in a public ceremony. The process had legal force and therefore needed witnesses of the consummation of the marriage. In the oldest...
    4 KB (649 words) - 17:41, 30 May 2024
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    the early years of the marriage. Some biographers have suggested that Blake tried to bring a concubine into the marriage bed in accordance with the beliefs...
    103 KB (12,383 words) - 20:19, 8 June 2024
  • more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. Though parents grudge, and you, we're met, And cloister'd...
    11 KB (1,584 words) - 12:33, 8 June 2024
  • York Times. Patrick, Bethanne (June 5, 2023). "How COVID and an antique marriage bed inspired Lisa See's new historical novel". Los Angeles Times. The Associated...
    3 KB (134 words) - 07:27, 3 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bed-ins for peace
    as a symbol of peace. Their marriage ("You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain"), the first bed-in ("Talking in our beds for a week"), the Vienna press...
    17 KB (1,770 words) - 06:38, 1 June 2024
  • prosperity of the town, especially the fruitfulness of farm, byre, and marriage-bed, was linked with his life. Should he fall sick, therefore, it entailed...
    9 KB (951 words) - 23:02, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brunhild
    places his sword between them for three nights while they share the marriage bed. Sigurd and Gunnar return to their normal shapes and take Brunhild back...
    45 KB (6,271 words) - 07:58, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fornication
    discussion. "Marriage" and the marriage bed [...] go together and are to be kept pure. Using the "bed" aside from "marriage" is sin that God will judge....
    152 KB (17,420 words) - 17:55, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sodomy
    connections; for not only did they go mad after other women, and defile the marriage bed of others, but also those who were men lusted after one another, doing...
    64 KB (7,469 words) - 11:08, 16 May 2024
  • Bed hangings or bed curtains are fabric panels that surround a bed; they were used from medieval times through to the 19th century. Bed hangings provided...
    26 KB (3,434 words) - 08:03, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Murphy bed
    A Murphy bed (also known as a pull-down bed, fold-down bed, or wall bed) is a bed that is hinged at one end to store vertically against the wall, or inside...
    12 KB (1,329 words) - 17:07, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leviticus 18
    is translated as "[to] the bed of your father." Therefore, מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אִשָּׁ֑ה‎, miš-kə-ḇê 'iš-šāh can mean either 'the bed of a woman' or 'the lying-down...
    29 KB (2,335 words) - 22:41, 2 June 2024
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