Administrating Kinship

• Autore: Lanzinger Margareth
• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 pages)
• Disciplina: 346.43601/67
• Soggetto topico: Consanguinity (Law) - Austria - History - 19th century; Consanguinity (Canon law) - History - 19th century; Cross-cousin marriage - Austria - History - 19th century
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Concepts and discourses -- Church and state in competition -- Procedures, evidence and logics -- Marriages in close degrees of affinity - contested unions -- Consanguineous marriages : contexts and controversies -- Conclusion : demarcations and spheres of power.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Altri titoli varianti: Administrating Kinship
• Titolo autorizzato: Administrating kinship
• ISBN: 90-04-53987-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910731425903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Legal History Library