Información General

• Autores: Anne Lise Head König (coord.), Péter Pozsgai (coord.), European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (Organization) (coord.)
• Editores: Brepols
• Año de publicación: 2012
• Colecciones: Rural history in Europe, 7
• País: Bélgica
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9782503543956
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Resumen

• Conventional wisdom holds that, over a long period of history, many women and men in the countryside were prevented from marrying because they lacked access to land. This volume offers an up-to-date discussion of the interaction between inheritance practices, marriage and household formation both for those who inherited and those who did not. It asks why and to what extent inheritance patterns and household structures differed between countries and regions in Europe right up to the present day. Dealing with bothimpartible and partible inheritance, it examines how retirement practices and choices between ante-mortem or post-mortem property transfers gave rise to a wide range ofspecific strategies. The chapters cover rural Europe from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, ranging from semi-subsistence and seignorial societies to highly market-oriented economies. They offer case studies drawn from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia and from the British Isles to Russia.

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Listado de artículos

• • Inheritance regulations and inheritance practices, marriage and household in rural societies.: Comparative perspectives in a changing Europe

    Anne Lise Head König

    págs. 17-48

    

  • The formation of new households and social change in a single heir system:: the Catalan case, eighteenth century

    Rosa Congost i Colomer, Llorenç Ferrer Alòs, Julie Marfany

    págs. 49-73

    

  • Inheritance, marital strategies, and the formation of households in rural North-Western Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:: an overview

    Ofelia Rey Castelao

    págs. 75-99

    

  • Marriage and property transfer in rural Western Bohemia 1700-1850

    Alice Velkova

    págs. 101-125

    

  • Too poor to marry?: ‘Inheritance’, the poor and marriage/household formation in rural England 1800-1840s

    Steven King

    págs. 127-152

    

  • Household formation, inheritance and class-formation in nineteenth century Ireland:: evidence from County Fermanagh

    Jane Gray

    págs. 153-180

    

  • Marriage, household division and headship attainment in nineteenth century Central Russia, Bun’kovskaia volost’, Moscow province, 1834-1869

    Herdis Kolle

    págs. 181-208

    

  • Inheritance, marriage and household formation in nineteenth century rural Serbian life courses,

    Siegfried Gruber

    págs. 209-230

    

  • Family strategies or individual choice?: Marriage and inheritance in a rural Swedish community, 1810-1930

    Sofia Holmlund

    págs. 231-260

    

  • Marriage, inheritance and household formation on a Greek island, Mykonos (mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century)

    Violetta Hionidou

    págs. 261-282

    

  • Farm transfer, marriage, household and parental power in rural Switzerland, 1860-1960

    Anne Lise Head König

    págs. 283-309

    

  • The transfer of farms in North Groningen (the Netherlands), 1591-1991.: From sale towards family succession?

    Richard Paping

    págs. 311-337