Women between a new marriage and an independent position: rural widows in Bohemia in the first half of the nineteenth century

0350458 - HÚ 2011 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Velková, Alice
Women between a new marriage and an independent position: rural widows in Bohemia in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The History of the Family. 15 2010, č. 3 (2010), s. 255-270. ISSN 1081-602X. E-ISSN 1873-5398
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80150510
Keywords : Widowhood * Remarriage * 19th century Bohemia * Rural family
Subject RIV: AB - History
Impact factor: 0.595, year: 2010

This article discusses the position of widowed rural women in early 19th-century Bohemia. It focuses on women who had been married to full peasant farmers, holders of smaller farmsteads or cottagers. The data collected are based on the method of family reconstruction, which made it possible to carry out an in-depth examination of the background of individual widows as well as of the factors which influenced the widows' future.
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