Dowry, Norms, and Household Formation

A Case Study From North Portugal

Bibliographic Data

ID6079612
AuthorsHelena Osswald (Helena Osswald is Assistant for Early Modern History at the Faculty of Letters, University of Porto, Portugal. She is working on her doctoral dissertation on family relations in Porto in the seventeenth century.), Maria Helena Osswald (0000-0002-9647-4029, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administracao do Porto, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume15
Issue1
Pages201-224
Publication date1990-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319909001500112
OpenAlexW1992131127, W2564662931
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited7

The study uses a data base of 28 parishes in northern Portugal at the beginning of the seventeenth century to analyze the situation of young couples in terms of household composition, residential patterns, and inheritance rules. These matters are linked to cultural factors such as marital and generational relations and an attempt is made to explain the functioning of the conjugal fund and the roles of family members independent of the social and economic characteristics of the couples

Demographic economics · Dowry · Economics · Genealogy · Geography · Marital status · Political science · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law

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