HIS368H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Early Modern Europe, Nuclear Family, Childbirth
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September 28th, 2017: introduction, marriage, wives, single women and widows, marital discord, childbirth, contraception and conception, pregnancy, legitimate and illegitimate births, infanticide, midwives and healers, family structures. Introduction: the ideals told women and men how they should act to act as good christians. In elite marriages, women might bring a dowry: marriage can happen anywhere, not just in a church all you had to do was possible would often publicize the engagement and get married in presence of. Single women and widows: you would have to have the economic independence to do this. )f you don"t divorce, couples can separate on their own but they are not allowed to remarry. If the partner disappears, the other partner had to wait 7 years before they could remarry, declaring the first partner legally dead. Pregnancy where they remain in their bedroom (period of rest: they do the same thing after birth.
