TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lanzinger,Margareth
TI  - Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
T2  - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023
SN  - 9789004431072
AV  - KTL770 
U1  - 346.436 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill | Nijhoff
KW  - Consanguinity (Canon law)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Consanguinity (Law)
KW  - Austria
KW  - Cross-cousin marriage
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wished to marry their cousins or in-laws. This aim was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy as well as economically precarious households counted on related marriage partners. Such unions, however, faced centuries-old marriage impediments. Bridal couples had to apply for a papal dispensation. This meant a hurdled, lengthy and also expensive procedure. This book shows that applicants in four dioceses  -  Brixen, Chur, Salzburg and Trent  -  took very different paths through the thicket of bureaucracy to achieve their goal. How did they argue their marriage projects? How did they succeed and why did so many fail? Tenacity often proved decisive in the end.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004539877
ER  -