1st Edition

Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900

Edited By Gabriella Erdélyi, András Péter Szabó Copyright 2023
364 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between East Central Europe and Northwestern Europe. How did the specific economic, military-political, legal,... Read more

Introduction

Gabriella Erdélyi

  1. The Demography of Stepfamilies
  2. 1 Inheritance and Stepfamilies in Bohemian Rural Society (1650–1800)

    Alice Velková

    2 Magnate and Noble Stepfamilies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth

    Marzena Liedke, Piotr Guzowski

    3 Career Potentials of Stepchildren in the Lutheran Community of Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia), 1730–1850

    Árpád Tóth

    4 Orphans and Stepchildren: The Impact of Parental Loss and Parental Remarriage on Children’s First Marriages in Zsámbék in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    Péter Őri

    5 Marriage, Widowhood, and Remarriage in the Székely Land (1830–1939)

    Sándor Lakatos

     

  3. Egodocuments and Stepfamily Relationships

6 Mothering Half-Sisters. Maternal Love, Anger, and Authority in Early Modern Hungary

Gabriella Erdélyi

7 Remarriage and Stepfamilies Among the Lutheran Urban Elite in Seventeenth-Century Hungary. Neo-Latin Wedding Poetry as Source

Ágnes Máté

8 Roads to Recomposed Families of the Nobility in Seventeenth-Century Transylvania

András Péter Szabó

9 Stepfamily Relations in Autobiographical Writings in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania

Andrea Fehér

10 ‘Her children to have as children of ours’: Stepfamilies in the Romanian Principalities in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Constanţa Vintilă

Biography

Gabriella Erdélyi is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest. She is principal investigator of the "Integrating Families: Stepfamilies and Children in the Past" Project and Research Group, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017–22). Her books include Negotiating Violence. Papal Pardons and Everyday Life in East Central Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2018) and A Cloister on Trial: Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).

András Péter Szabó has served since 2012 as Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest. His primary area of expertise is the social and ecclesiastical history of the Kingdom of Hungary and Transylvania in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.