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Women, Marriage and Family in Istrian Communes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

This paper analyses the so-called Istrian marriage pattern and the position of women within it. In Istria, couples acquired property at marriage in ways that were distinct from both the Venetian and Slavic patterns. Istrian marriages were more couple-centered than both their Eastern and Western counterparts. As a result, wives and widows legal powers were relatively strong -- as can be seen, for example, in women s testaments, and from the mother s position as tutor and guardian of her children. My analysis will be based on unpublished sources of the head of Novigrad commune (1492-1600) preserved in the State Archive of Pazin, Croatia, on published Istrian statutes, and the book of the Buzet notary-public Martin Sotoli (1492-1517).

Women; Marriage; Family; Istrian Communes

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