Marriage Choice and Kinship among the English Catholic Elite, 1680–1730
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Gibson (0000-0002-9812-8269, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 144-164 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199016635215 |
| OpenAlex | W2329804081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Historians of marriage have long debated an individual choice versus kin-based marriage strategy, emphasizing financial gain, patronage, and political alliance as the primary goals of kin. This article challenges the dominance of a Protestant evidence base and a failure to recognize religious motivations in the history of marriage. Examining a Catholic recusant family, it argues that the preservation of Catholicism was a primary imperative that increased kin control over marriage. Marriage was utilized as part of a survival strategy, in response to the chronic insecurity faced by the English elite Catholic community in this period
Alliance · Elite · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |