Land, Kinship, and Consanguineous Marriage in Italy From the Seventeenth To the Nineteenth Centuries

Bibliographic Data

ID6079309
AuthorsRaul Merzario (University of Ancona, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume15
Issue4
Pages529-546
Publication date1990-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319909001500409
OpenAlexW4233422217
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

Marriage between consanguineous kin was a common feature of many areas of Italy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These took place-with dispensation- both within the broad confines of Church proscriptions on kin marriages and just beyond those confines. In some cases, economic and demographic changes during this period led to increases in such kin marriages, a pattern attributed to the economic strategies of families. Marriages between kin not only served to keep family patrimonies intact over the generations, but often led to hamlets or neighborhoods composed of extended kin

Art · Consanguineous Marriage · Genealogy · Geography · Kinship · Period (music · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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