Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900

Gabriella Erdélyi is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest. She is principal investigator of the "Integrating Families: Stepfamilies and Children in the Past" Project and Research Group, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017–22). Her books include Negotiating Violence. Papal Pardons and Everyday Life in East Central Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2018) and A Cloister on Trial: Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).András Péter Szabó has served since 2012 as Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest. His primary area of expertise is the social and ecclesiastical history of the Kingdom of Hungary and Transylvania in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

• Introduction / 1 Inheritance and Stepfamilies in Bohemian Rural Society (1650–1800) / 2 Magnate and Noble Stepfamilies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth / 3 Career Potentials of Stepchildren in the Lutheran Community of Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia), 1730–1850 / 4 Orphans and Stepchildren: The Impact of Parental Loss and Parental Remarriage on Children’s First Marriages in Zsámbék in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / 5 Marriage, Widowhood, and Remarriage in the Székely Land (1830–1939) / 6 Mothering Half-Sisters. Maternal Love, Anger, and Authority in Early Modern Hungary / 7 Remarriage and Stepfamilies Among the Lutheran Urban Elite in Seventeenth-Century Hungary. Neo-Latin Wedding Poetry as Source / 8 Roads to Recomposed Families of the Nobility in Seventeenth-Century Transylvania / 9 Stepfamily Relations in Autobiographical Writings in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania / 10 ‘Her children to have as children of ours’: Stepfamilies in the Romanian Principalities in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries