10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIGENITURE»
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unigeniture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Distinct Inheritances: Property, Family and Community in a ...
This correlation holds good both in villages characterized by partible inheritance
and in St. Felix, the Tyrolean village where unigeniture is practiced. On the other
hand, villages with partible inheritance but lacking control over their own ...
Hannes Grandits, Patrick Heady, 2003
2
Human Population Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
The history of unigeniture in northern Europe illustrates the effect of power
differences in the wider society on peasant communities. In England and
Germany, unigeniture was imposed on populations that previously practised
partibility.
Helen Macbeth, Paul Collinson, 2002
3
The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in ...
Before 1402, the practice that Cemal Kafadar has called “unigeniture,” according
to which upon the death of the sovereign a single male relative assumed control
of the entire empire by eliminating all other rival claimants to the throne, was ...
Dimitris J. Kastritsis, 2007
4
Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and ...
Systems of unigeniture in Japan and England emerged to serve elite interests: in
Japan to create samurai class military accountability between lord and retainer;
in Europe to allow for either more effective feudal control, better manorial order, ...
5
Property and Equality: Ritualisation, sharing, egalitarianism
Two inheritance systems coexist in Western Europe: unigeniture and partible
inheritance. My study area in Franche-Comte is characterised by the partible
inheritance. The French anthropologist Augustins argued that partible inheritance
and ...
Thomas Widlok, Wolde Gossa Tadesse, 2006
6
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415
... while many neighbours suffered domestic discord, the house of Osman
remained united? Kafadar has suggested otherwise: that the Ottomans
deliberately avoided the danger of dissolution by a policy of 'unigeniture',
keeping the patrimony ...
Rosamond McKitterick, Michael Jones, 2000
7
The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe
an inspired if brutal strategy, they moved to a system not of primogeniture, as
became the norm in western Europe, but to one of unigeniture.14 That is, when a
chieftain (and later a monarch) died, one of his sons, rather than many of his ...
8
Age Structuring in Comparative Perspective
The logical extreme of inequality in inheritance or impartibility is strict unigeniture,
where only one male heir inherits the whole property. When this male heir is the
first born son, primogeniture is established. This is a common, though far from ...
David I. Kertzer, K. Warner Schaie, 2013
9
Honour and Disgrace: Women and the Law in Early Modern Catalonia
Although forms of unigeniture were already stipulated by Roman law, unigeniture
and committed inheritance, such as they were understood in Catalan law and in
many places on the European continent, emerged in the context of a feudal ...
Isabel Pérez Molina, 2001
10
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Many societies have used some type of unigeniture system, whereby one child,
often the eldest, received the largest chunk of property. By favoring the
productivity of only one of their children, parents and society placed great
importance on ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIGENITURE»
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Во второй половине XVIII века, когда и происходит действие романа, в Англии (и в большинстве стран Европы) практиковался майорат (unigeniture). «Коммерсантъ Приложения, Aug 14»
