Administrating kinship: marriage impediments and dispensation policies in the 18th and 19th centuries

"From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wanted to marry their cousins or in-laws. This was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy as well as economically precarious households counted on related marriage par...

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Main Author: Lanzinger, Margareth 1965- (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
German
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill Nijhoff [2023]
Series:Legal history library volume 63
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Summary:"From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wanted to marry their cousins or in-laws. This was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy as well as economically precarious households counted on related marriage partners. Such unions, however, faced centuries-old marriage impediments. Bridal couples had to apply for a papal dispensation. This meant a hurdled, lengthy and also expensive procedure. This book shows that applicants in four dioceses - Brixen, Chur, Salzburg and Trent - took very different paths through the thicket of bureaucracy to achieve their goal. How did they argue their marriage projects? How did they succeed and why did so many fail? Tenacity often proved decisive in the end"--
Item Description:"Originally published as Verwaltete Verwandtschaft. Eheverbote, kirchliche und staatliche Dispenspraxis im 18. und 19 by Böhlau in 2015. The text was translated from German by Christopher Roth"--ECIP title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (357-399) and index
Physical Description:IX, 404 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9789004431072
9004431071

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