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2018. October 29. 21:14
“While old people seek vice, maidens look at the pockets”: widows and their chosen ones
This post by Eszter Baros-Gyimóthy provides a vibrant, vivid image of the fragility of family in traditional societies, using eighteenth-century...
2018. September 12. 14:39
“A hated, illegal and amoral affair”: the double life of a Buda physician in the 1880s
This post by Sándor Nagy leads us through an extraordinary story which demonstrates that the everyday family life of middle class people was very...
2018. April 20. 13:17
“God, how we all grow!” The family of Júlia Szendrey at Hársfa Street
Emese Gyimesi presents the everyday life of Julia Szendrey’s stepfamily, who was the most famous literary widow of the 19th century. In the...
2018. March 20. 13:41
“Such a numerous family as mine”. István Széchenyi as Stepfather
Zoltán Fónagy presents one of the best-known Hungarian historical figures in a lesser-known role. István Széchenyi, sometimes referred to as...
2018. February 04. 15:08
In Search of Stepmothers: The Stepfamilies of a Calvinist Minister
Family, autobiography, emotions Calvinist minister István Miskolci Csulyak (1575–1645) introduced his sixth and final marriage at the age of 65 in...
