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Russian peasant women who refused to marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries /
John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution. In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (339 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253030137 9780253030139 9780253029652 0253029651 |