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"Married the sister of his late wife”: The negotiation of kin-marriages in Renaissance Hungary

Gabriella Erdélyi-2011-01-01-Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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The study examines the social practices and cultural attitudes concerning kin-marriages of both the aristocracy and the common man. The analysis oflay petitions handed in to the papal curia asking the dispensation of kin-marriageshighlights the dynamicrelationship of social practices and official normsand reveals changingattitudesand practices to marriage, kinship and lawfrom the 15th to the 17th century.

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The study examines the social practices and cultural attitudes concerning kin-marriages of both the aristocracy and the common man. The analysis oflay petitions handed in to the papal curia asking the dispensation of kin-marriageshighlights the dynamicrelationship of social practices and official normsand reveals changingattitudesand practices to marriage, kinship and lawfrom the 15th to the 17th century.

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KinshipAristocracy (class)WifeSisterGenealogyNegotiationPortraitThe Renaissance

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