The present study challenges the commonly held opinion that egalitarian inheritance could only lead partition after partition to the break up of family patrimony. A precise observation of marriages over several generation in the Swiss village of Masse shows that egalitarian partitions allowed above all to divide and transfer lots of land among members of the community as a whole. Thus, the point of redoublements d'alliance to a group (through blood ties) or to several groups (renchaînement d'alliance ), over one or more generations, was not in order to reconstitute a viable family enterprise, especially since the acquests of a couple composed an important part of the new property. In a society without apparent subgroups and without explicit...
In that article we first observe some aspects of consanguinity relationship in french nobility. In t...
The participants at the Senanque seminar presented material concerning certain restricted themes : s...
Kinship and Landed Property in the Modern Era: a Reinterpretation. Landed property transfers in Eu...
The present study challenges the commonly held opinion that egalitarian inheritance could only lead ...
This work on marriage, alliance and filiation is based on the analysis of 1256 marriage contracts, ...
This work on marriage, alliance and filiation is based on the analysis of 1256 marriage contracts, ...
In a large village in the Perche, between Beauce and Normandie, an aristocracy of merchant-farmers b...
In a large village in the Perche, between Beauce and Normandie, an aristocracy of merchant-farmers b...
The intention of this research was to contribute, by taking marriage as a revealing process of the e...
The intention of this research was to contribute, by taking marriage as a revealing process of the e...
The intention of this research was to contribute, by taking marriage as a revealing process of the e...
Studying past family relationships in Dordogne has a twofold interest. It first relates to establish...
Evolutions of family forms result from the interplay of shifting social and economic conditions, div...
International audienceThis article introduces a number of helpful concepts for studying kinship netw...
In that article we first observe some aspects of consanguinity relationship in french nobility. In t...
In that article we first observe some aspects of consanguinity relationship in french nobility. In t...
The participants at the Senanque seminar presented material concerning certain restricted themes : s...
Kinship and Landed Property in the Modern Era: a Reinterpretation. Landed property transfers in Eu...
The present study challenges the commonly held opinion that egalitarian inheritance could only lead ...
This work on marriage, alliance and filiation is based on the analysis of 1256 marriage contracts, ...
This work on marriage, alliance and filiation is based on the analysis of 1256 marriage contracts, ...
In a large village in the Perche, between Beauce and Normandie, an aristocracy of merchant-farmers b...
In a large village in the Perche, between Beauce and Normandie, an aristocracy of merchant-farmers b...
The intention of this research was to contribute, by taking marriage as a revealing process of the e...
The intention of this research was to contribute, by taking marriage as a revealing process of the e...
The intention of this research was to contribute, by taking marriage as a revealing process of the e...
Studying past family relationships in Dordogne has a twofold interest. It first relates to establish...
Evolutions of family forms result from the interplay of shifting social and economic conditions, div...
International audienceThis article introduces a number of helpful concepts for studying kinship netw...
In that article we first observe some aspects of consanguinity relationship in french nobility. In t...
In that article we first observe some aspects of consanguinity relationship in french nobility. In t...
The participants at the Senanque seminar presented material concerning certain restricted themes : s...
Kinship and Landed Property in the Modern Era: a Reinterpretation. Landed property transfers in Eu...