Artikel
Leibliche Schwestern in der frühneuzeitlichen Fürstengesellschaft des Heiligen Römischen Reiches (15. bis 19. Jahrhundert)
Verfasst von:
Hohkamp, Michaela
info
in:
Schwesterfiguren / herausgegeben von Almut Höfert, Michaela Hohkamp und Claudia Ulbrich
Göttingen:
V&R unipress
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2017
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15-33 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Hohkamp, Michaela info |
| In: | Schwesterfiguren / herausgegeben von Almut Höfert, Michaela Hohkamp und Claudia Ulbrich |
| Jahr: | 2017 |
| ISBN: | 3847107135 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| This article investigates the significance of being a sister in the European noble society during the Early Modern period. Although the time span between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the nineteenth century is usually seen as the time of the rise of patrilineal social order, female relatives played a key role in inheritance matters. Using concrete case studies relevant for the political history of the Holy Roman Empire during the Early Modern period, this article describes sisters as important agents within transmissions of succession and property in premodern noble societies. Combining perspectives of conceptual history, history of law and political history with those of gender and the new kinship studies, the article will systematically develop the “soror” as a gendered person switching between different kin-roles. More generally, the article is about kin as a key social concept and presents the “married sister” as a highly ranked judicial and political figure during the European Early Modern period until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the majority of female kin lost their hereditary rights and sisters became a de-gendered part of sibling pairs. | |
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