Search results

1

Infanticide and the Conflicts in Early Modern South Bohemia (1690–1710). Five Women from Jindřichův Hradec

100%

Stůj P.

Folia Historica Cracoviensia

|

2018

|

vol. 24

|

issue 1

EN

Early Modern Child-Murder Investigations Were Characterized by Many Conflicts and Struggles on Different Levels of the Social Organization. Sources like broadside ballads or pamphlets highlighted the infanticide as a matter of considerable public concern. There the conflict between idea of early modern motherhood and family life and the everyday life of single-mothers dealing with unwanted children was apparent. These moralizing pamphlets were describing virtues of motherhood like self-sacrifice, solicitude, economic and social responsibility and on the other hand authors criticized murdering mothers. Finally, conflicts, antipathy and personal confrontations between members of the family and sexual partners can be traced in these sources. Events prior the crime can be characterized by disagreements between sexual partners, violence and verbal abuse. This contextual analysis of conflicts in five infanticide proceedings from south Bohemia (1690–1710) is the centre of the paper.

PL

Nowożytne śledztwa w sprawie morderstw dzieci charakteryzowały się wieloma konfliktami i walkami na różnych poziomach organizacji społecznej. Źródła, takie jak ballady czy pamflety, publikowane w gazetach dużego formatu, ukazują dzieciobójstwo jako kwestię, którą żywo interesowała się opinia publiczna. Widać było w tym konflikt między nowożytnym ideałem matki i życiem rodzinnym a samotnymi matkami z niechcianymi dziećmi. Moralizatorskie pamflety przywoływały takie cnoty macierzyństwa, jak samopoświęcenie, troska o innych czy ekonomiczna i społeczna odpowiedzialność, jednocześnie krytykując matki dzieciobójczynie. Co więcej, w tych źródłach można doszukać się konfliktów, antypatii i personalnych konfrontacji między członkami rodziny a kochankami. Wydarzenia poprzedzające zbrodnię dzieciobójstwa to przede wszystkim niesnaski między partnerami seksualnymi, przemoc i słowne zniewagi. Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza kontekstualna pięciu spraw sądowych dotyczących dzieciobójstwa, które to postępowania miały miejsce w południowej Bohemii w latach 1690–1710.

2

Putování Marty vojandy – osudy dcery pastora Modlera za třicetileté války

100%

Stůj P.

Folia historica Bohemica

|

2015

|

vol. 30

|

issue 2

341-368

EN

Marta Modlerová, as one of the few unmarried women without parents in the 17th century, left behind a deeper trace in early modern sources. Although her story survived only in a shortened form as a record in a pitch book (a protocol on the right to torture, Sternberg 1635), its geographical and chronographic reach allows microhistorical elaboration and explanation of her “historically plausible world”. Episodes in the store serve as an outline for a broader analysis of the woman’s life during the Thirty Year War, where we can see Marta as a servant, sutler or a housemaid involved in infanticide investigation. Her travels around the lands of Bohemia in the men’s clothes are also unusual, but, unlike other known cases (works by Rudolph Dekker or Angela Steidele), we can interpret it only as Marta’s reaction to the unexpected circumstances. The travels of soldier Marta are also unusual because of support from the Sternberg duke, which she experienced.

3

Gender and Infanticide in Early Modern Bohemia: The Case of Elisabeth Symandlin, 1707–1710

100%

Stůj P.

West Bohemian Historical Review

|

2018

|

vol. 8

|

issue 2

145-184

EN

The interrogation reports documenting a case of Elisabeth Symandlin, a young maidservant from south Bohemia who was investigated for suspicion of infanticide between the years 1707–1710, offer a unique opportunity for a research on the history of everyday life in the town of Jindˇrich ̊uv Hradec in early modern period. Following the recent foreign research in legal history (David Myers, 2011), the author of this paper argues that Elisabeth’s process indicates general problems related to criminal investigations which have been discussed repeatedly by contemporary lawyers and doctors. The present study is a contribution to the research in the history of everyday life following modern historiographical trends (historical anthropology, microhistory, gender history). Based on the sources from the estate of Jindˇrich ̊uv Hradec, it emphasizes the manifestation of woman’s involvement in crime investigation and examines the opportunities that unmarried women could get in the early modern society.

Refine search results

1 Folia Historica Cracoviensia

1 Folia historica Bohemica

1 West Bohemian Historical Review

3 Stůj P.

2 2018

1 2015

Infanticide and the Conflicts in Early Modern South Bohemia (1690–1710). Five Women from Jindřichův Hradec

Putování Marty vojandy – osudy dcery pastora Modlera za třicetileté války

Gender and Infanticide in Early Modern Bohemia: The Case of Elisabeth Symandlin, 1707–1710