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Second marriage – social position of widows in Križevci in the pre-modern era and a “new beginning”
Zdenko Balog
; Križevci, Hrvatska
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Sažetak
The proposed study is a continuation of my research on marriage and family, and everyday life »from conception to death« in pre-modern times in Križevci and some other early modern period parishes in Croatia. The research is based on original material and the words of contemporary chroniclers, and to the greatest extent on church (registry) books. In Križevci, this material is mostly available for the entire 18th century and later periods, and therefore the focus of my interest is the 18th and part of the 19th century.
In the context of the proposed study, the expression ‘second marriage’ means the marriage which is really the second in the life of an individual, but also every other marriage, i.e. every marriage into which a person enters after the end of one marriage, therefore, equally so the third and fourth, and even the following ones, if such examples are found.
According to the methodology that I have used in the previous texts, the subject is presented somewhat numerically, statistically in context, which also includes the topic of seasonality, as well as an example of community behavior in crisis. The focus lies on studying individual cases from real life. For a better readability of the text, the examples are grouped according to the dominant events that condition marriages. Families in which death in childbirth occurs, especially the reconstruction of the mother’s family (families), are grouped together, and in the third group there are examples that form a recognizable pattern with a similar structure and sequence of events. It is self-evident that families grouped in this way intertwine through several groups.
The conclusions that arise from the specifically observed examples, as well as from the recognized patterns of behavior, largely correspond to marriage in general, that is, to both first and second marriages.
Ključne riječi
second marriage; widower; widow; widowhood; Križevci; 18th century; pre-modern era; early modern period
Hrčak ID:
320497
URI
Datum izdavanja:
3.9.2024.
Posjeta: 355 *