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The Making of Modern Marriage : Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel / Jeffrey Watt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 2 mapsContent type:
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  • 9781501735240
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Reformation and the Seventeenth Century -- 1. The Principality of Neuchatel -- 2. The Formation of Marriage, 1547-1706 -- 3. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1547-1706 -- Part II. The Prussian Era -- 4. The Formation of Marriage, 1707-1806 -- 5. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1707-1806 -- 6. The Causes of Change -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This is the first book to cover the marriage litigation of a given area for the entire early modern period. Using the exceptionally rich court records of Neuchatel, Jeffrey R. Watt analyzes both the socio-economic developments and the intellectual movements of the era to illustrate the transformation in the nature of marriage and the family.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501735240

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Reformation and the Seventeenth Century -- 1. The Principality of Neuchatel -- 2. The Formation of Marriage, 1547-1706 -- 3. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1547-1706 -- Part II. The Prussian Era -- 4. The Formation of Marriage, 1707-1806 -- 5. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1707-1806 -- 6. The Causes of Change -- Bibliography -- Index

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This is the first book to cover the marriage litigation of a given area for the entire early modern period. Using the exceptionally rich court records of Neuchatel, Jeffrey R. Watt analyzes both the socio-economic developments and the intellectual movements of the era to illustrate the transformation in the nature of marriage and the family.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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