Inheritance and Stepfamilies in Bohemian Rural Society (1650-1800)

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003299967-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003299967-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003299967-3" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003299967-3</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Inheritance and Stepfamilies in Bohemian Rural Society (1650-1800)
Original language description
The author investigates the frequency of peasant stepfamilies in Bohemia between 1650 and 1800 and how the legal framework and everyday practices related to the transmission of property shaped family relations. She argues that stepfamilies occurred twice as frequently among large peasant holders than among the landless rural population due to higher rates of remarriage and higher fertility rates among the upper strata of peasants. The study demonstrates that as the remarriage of widows with small children was frequent, stepfathers living on the farm with an underage stepson selected as heir was common. Even though conflicts often developed between stepfathers managing the farm and heirs waiting to take over their inheritance, stepfathers and stepsons often continued to live together in the same household, with the grown-up stepson as head of the household. Through the reconstruction of chain marriages, often between two widowed persons, the study demonstrates that very complex stepfamilies emerged with children living under one roof from three or even four marriages.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-11983S" target="_blank" >GA17-11983S: Testing the "grandmother hypothesis": Transgenerational effect on reproduction based on parish registers from the 17th -19th century Bohemia</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600–1900
ISBN
978-1-03-229084-3
Number of pages of the result
34
Pages from-to
37-70
Number of pages of the book
364
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
001010828800002

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