The Art of Kissing: Curiously, Historically, Humorously, Poetically Considered

The Art of Kissing: Curiously, Historically, Humorously, Poetically Considered

Origin of kissing; the Scandinavian tradition; an old poets ideaKissing in ancient Rome, and among the Jews and early ChristiansBiblical kissingReligious significanceKissing in early EnglandAncient kissing customs as described by ErasmusThe puritanical views of John BunyanHow Adam kissed EveA kiss defined: By the dictionary, Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Sidney, ColeridgeComical and short descriptionsA grammar of kissingThe scientific reason why kisses are pleasant. Of kissing it has been quaintly said that nature was its author and it began with the first courtship. The Scandinavian tradition was that kissing was an exotic introduced into England by Rowena, the beautiful daughter of Hengist, the Saxon. At a banquet given by the British monarch in honor of his allies the princess, after pressing the brimming beaker to her lips, saluted the astonished and delighted Vortigern with a little kiss, after the manner of her own people. For a long time it was an act of religion in ancient Rome and among the Romans the sacredness of the kiss was inviolable. At length it was degraded into a current form of salutation. The kiss was, in process of time, used generally as a form of salutation in Rome where men testified their regard and the warmth of their welcome for each other chiefly by the number of their kisses. There was a curious law among the Romans made by Constantine; that, if a man had kissed his betrothed she gained thereby the half of his effects should he die before the celebration of the marriage; and should the lady herself die, under the same circumstances, her heirs or nearest to kin would take the half due her, a kiss among the ancients being the sign of plighted faith. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50045
Author: Rossiter, Will
Release Date: Sep 23, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English