WIDOWHOOD AND REMARRIAGE OF WOMEN AMONG POLISH HIGHER NOBILITY DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (Wdowienstwo i powtórne zamazpójscie kobiet wsród mozniejszej szlachty polskiej póznego sredniowiecza)

• Authors: Brzezinski Witold
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The problems discussed are concerned with widowhood and remarriage of women among Polish higher nobility during the later Middle Ages viewed from demographic and social perspective. The analysis is based on data from research using genealogical and prosopographic methods on a group of 43 married women, descending from (daughters) or linked to (wives) the Bninski family of the Lodzia heraldic clan, one of the most powerful families of late medieval Great Poland. The issues discussed cover frequency of widowhood and remarriage of women, as well as the contexts accompanying and conditioning new marriages of widows, especially the time elapsing before remarriage, marital status of second husbands, and the age of women at the time of becoming a widow and when getting married again.

Keywords

EN

HIGHER NOBILITY; LATER MIDDLE AGES (POLAND); REMARRIAGE; WIDOWHOOD

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Roczniki Historyczne
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 75
• Pages: 105-122
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Brzezinski Witold

• Witold Brzezinski, Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy, Wydzial Pedagogiki i Psychologii, Katedra Historii Edukacji i Wychowania w Rodzinie, ul. Chodkiewicza 30, 85-064 Bydgoszcz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08245