Widowers and their sisters-in-law: family crises, horizontally organised relationships and affinal relatives in the nineteenth century

Lanzinger, Margareth

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2016.1176586

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“…Finding a new partner could prove challenging, however, especially if the surviving spouse was old, had young children, lacked a sufficiently attractive dowry, or lived in a geographically isolated area (Bras, Van Poppel, and Mandemakers 2009, 794–95; Lévy 1910, 140; Sutter 1968, 303–4; Weber 1976, 168–70). In these circumstances, an unmarried sibling of the deceased may sometimes be “swapped in,” thereby filling the vacant roles of housekeeper, breadwinner, and parent (Anderson 1982, 80; Bras, Van Poppel, and Mandemakers 2009, 800; Kuper 2002, 163–65; Lanzinger 2018, 10–14; Lévy 1910, 141; Pelaja 1996, 238; Segalen and Richard 1986, 127).…”

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“…Although our fixed effects eliminate several potential sources of bias, they cannot account for factors that vary within units at different rates over time. For example, demographers and historians generally agree that the frequency of marriages between close relatives is strongly shaped by (1) reliance upon a “family economy” pooling assets, land, and labor, as well as (2) geographic isolation that limits the number of available (exogamous) marriage partners (Bras, Van Poppel, and Mandemakers 2009, 794–95; Girault 1878, 142; Lanzinger 2018, 12–13; Sutter 1968, 303–4; Weber 1976, 168–70). To the extent that movement in these factors is also correlated with changes in literacy rates, our estimates may be biased.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We next address two additional sources of potential omitted variable bias concerning (a) religiosity and (b) state presence. Regarding religiosity, Catholic doctrine had long taken a critical stance against marriages between close relatives (Lanzinger 2018; Pelaja 1996). Even though the Church no longer had responsibility for the institution of marriage in France, its moral opposition could nonetheless have affected popular behavior—for example, by dissuading the religiously devout from entering into an in‐law union.…”

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“…On the wider European context, seeAnderson (1982),Bras, Van Poppel, and Mandemakers (2009),Gullette (1990),Kuper (2002),Lanzinger (2018), andPelaja (1996).…”

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Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth‐Century France

Zhang

Lee

2020

American J Political Sci

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Modern states are distinguished by the breadth and depth of public regulation over private affairs. This aspect of state capacity and state power is predicated on frequent and dense encounters between the state and the population it seeks to control. We argue that literacy in the language of state administration facilitates state-society interaction by lowering the transaction costs of those encounters. We support this claim with evidence drawing upon detailed historical data from nineteenth-century France during a crucial period of state and nation building. Focusing on the specific domain of French marriage regulations, we find that increasing literacy predicts greater popular involvement with local authorities across French regions over time. These results demonstrate that literacy plays an important role in political development not solely by enhancing loyalty to the state, as the literature has recognized, but also by lowering linguistic and human capital barriers to state-society interaction. Verification Materials: The data and materials required to verify the computational reproducibility of the results, procedures, and analyses in this article are available on the American Journal of Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard Dataverse Network, at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YQSBOA. M odern states are distinguished by the breadth and depth of public regulation over private affairs. Indeed, a defining axiom of the contemporary international state system is that state institutions should provide the predominant (if not exclusive) rules and regulations governing social and economic behavior over a given territory (Migdal 1988, 14). Many scholars therefore consider the ability to make and enforce binding rules to be central to conceptions of stateness and state capacity (

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“…On the wider European context, seeAnderson (1982),Bras, Van Poppel, and Mandemakers (2009),Gullette (1990),Kuper (2002),Lanzinger (2018), andPelaja (1996).…”

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Lee

2020

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Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708–1834

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Tureček

2021

The History of the Family

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Stepfamilies in Early Modern Europe: Paths of Historical Inquiry

Warner¹

2016

History Compass

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Many of the circumstances of the early modern stepfamily after remarriage by a widowed parent elude us. In historiography on the early modern family, widowhood, mothers' roles as guardians and the opportunities to remain widowed or to remarry have been well studied, but the consequences of a remarriage have not. When historical information emerges on the stepfamily in the European past, it is often more by accident through the study of widowhood, remarriage or inheritance practices than by design. But the stepfamily was a common family form experienced by many in early modern Europe and precisely because stepfamilies were ever‐present they feature intermittently in the works of leading historians. These complex families of stepbrothers and stepsisters, half‐brothers or half‐sisters deserve to be the focus of attention. This article suggests paths of inquiry into stepfamilies and blended families in Europe from the 1400s to 1700s, from considering the famously wicked reputation of the stepmother to seeking out the little known stepfather. The essay also explores questions about the residence of children of the first marriage and subsequent unions as well as the relationships between stepsiblings and half‐siblings.

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Widowers and their sisters-in-law: family crises, horizontally organised relationships and affinal relatives in the nineteenth century

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Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth‐Century France

Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth‐Century France

Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708–1834

Stepfamilies in Early Modern Europe: Paths of Historical Inquiry

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