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“It is not a great confusion to compete for a decent lady, even without the desired success, because ne se point risquer without a proper understanding of matters”1, 2. The quoted statement of the Crown Secretary Jakub Dunin (died in 1730), written in one of the letters to the Lithuanian Deputy Master’s wife Anna Potocka née Dunin (died in 1717), perfectly reflects the approach to courtship that guided the eighteenth-century marriage policy. Finding a suitable candidate for marriage could determine both one’s own success and be an important element in building the prestige of the family...
Autor: Penkala-Jastrzebska, Anna
ISBN: 9783930558391
Auflage: 1
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 504
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Friedrich-Christian-Lesser-Stiftung
Veröffentlicht: 23.12.2021
Untertitel: Migrations and the marriage policy of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Schlagworte: Commonwealth Lithuania marriage migration woman