The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914 Marriage, D
This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to r
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Dalia Leinarte
The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800–1914 Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities
Dalia Leinarte Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania
ISBN 978-3-319-51081-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51082-8
ISBN 978-3-319-51082-8 (eBook)
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PREFACE
This book reaches readers at a time when the paradigmatic framework of the 1960s–1970s on the essential differences in marriage and household structures in North-Western and Eastern Europe is undergoing transformation.1 Industrialisation and urbanisation alone were not capable of changing traditional household and marriage patterns. The East and West typologisation is being replaced by the methodological approach that the variety of family systems existed throughout Europe and these were determined by external factors.2 Military conflicts and the change in political regimes not only brought about sexual violence, and an increase in divorce and infanticide, but also often introduced new family ideologies and led to transformations in family behaviour.3 The fundamental question is, how did families in the past respond to social upheavals and economic reforms as well as policies of state and religious institutions? This question is especially important for the understanding of family behaviour in Eastern Europe, where due to drastic changes new marital behaviour often masked the dominant family systems. As Andrejs Plakans
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