misogamy
{{Short description|Dislike of marriage}}
{{distinguish|Misogyny}}
Misogamy is an aversion to or hatred of marriage. The word dates from the mid-17th century and combines the Greek misos (hatred) with gamos (marriage).[https://web.archive.org/web/20170129103230/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/misogamy misogamy.] Oxford University Press. Retrieved 15 September 2018. Merriam-Webster date the first use of the word to around 1656.[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misogamy misogamy.] Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
Medieval background
The idea of misogamy was important in the Christian church during the medieval period as a prerequisite for the celibacy required to occupy the highest positions in the church.{{sfn|Wilson|Makowski|1990|p=1}} It was developed in the philosophy of Theophrastus who became the "canonical authority on philosophic misogamy throughout the Middle Ages".Germanic Notes, Erasmus Press, 1989. p. 93. Sara E. Diaz writes that two types of misogamy existed during the period, one advising all men against marriage, and another more limited form advising wise men against marriage.[https://books.google.com/books?id=MstfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 "Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio's Trattatello in laude di Dante"] by Sara E. Diaz in {{cite book|author=Olivia Holmes & Dana E. Stewart. (Eds.)|title=Reconsidering Boccaccio: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts|year=2018|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=978-1-4875-0178-5|pages=164–188 (p. 169)}}
In literature
The literature of misogamy has been surveyed by Katharina Wilson and Elizabeth Makowski in their book Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer, published by the State University of New York in 1990.{{sfn|Wilson|Makowski|1990|p=}}
See also
{{wiktionary|Misogamy}}
References
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Sources
- {{Cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Katharina M.|last2=Makowski|first2=Elizabeth M.|title=Wykked wyves and the woes of marriage: Misogamous literature from Juvenal to Chaucer|year=1990|location=Albany|publisher=State University of New York Press (1990)|isbn=978-0-7914-0062-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSGTK74Q6rMC}}
Category:Criticism of marriage
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