English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Zendy Plus

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Zendy Tools

Zendy Open

This article explores marriage payments in late Ottoman Greece through the early years of the independent Greek state and, in particular, the idea of virginity and its value in both men and women. The main focus of the article is the payment known as  egenliki , paid by the bride who is entering a second marriage to a groom who has not been previously married.  Engenliki  is examined in conjunction with the rarer payment of a groom to his bride for her virginity. Through the examination of over 900 surviving dowry contracts from Athens and following the historical trajectory of such payments from the Roman Law to Ottoman Greece, this article argues that such rare payments were symbolic in nature meant to redress what was perceived as an inequality in marriage and possibly to forestall societal disapproval of marriages where only one of the members had been previously married.

A question of equity? The ‘value’ of male and female virginity in late 18 th and early 19 th century Athens