Russian peasant women who refused to marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries

Russian peasant women who refused to marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries / John Bushnell.

John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bushnell, John, 1945- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1700-1899.
Women peasants > Russia > History > 19th century.
Women peasants > Russia > History > 18th century.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Old Believers > History > 19th century.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Old Believers > History > 18th century.
Old Believers > Russia > History > 19th century.
Old Believers > Russia > History > 18th century.
RELIGION > Christianity > Orthodox.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Old Believers
Marriage > Religious aspects
Old Believers
Women peasants
Russia
Russia (Federation)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : what is the opposite of eureka?
  • 1. The moral economy of Russian serf marriage, 1580s-1750s : serf marriage unregulated
  • 2. Nobles discover peasant women's marriage aversion
  • 3. The outer limits of female marriage aversion : Kuplia Parish in the eighteenth century
  • 4. Kuplia Parish, 1830-50 : demographic crisis and the resumption of marriage
  • 5. Spasovites : the covenant of despair
  • 6. Baki : resistance to marriage on a forest frontier
  • 7. Steksovo and Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn : marriage aversion in a context of prosperity.

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