TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikołaj Szołtysek
PY  - 2015
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1660-6043
SN  - 9783035203271
TI  - Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
T2  - Volume 1: Contexts and analyses – Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0352-0327-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043799
N2  - This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns of leaving home and life-cycle service, marriage and household formation, along with domestic group structures and living arrangements among different subpopulations of Poland-Lithuania, highlighting a variety of ways in which these patterns were nested in their respective local and regional contexts. By showing that at the end of the 18th century at least three distinct family systems existed in the Polish-Lithuanian territories, Szołtysek challenges a number of orthodoxies in the ‘master narratives’ on the European geography of family forms of F. Le Play, J. Hajnal, P. Laslett, and their followers. Volume two of the book contains an extensive bibliography along with a thorough archival documentation of the census-like microdata used in the book, and provides detailed information on their quality and further technicalities pertaining to data analysis.
KW  - family systems, living arrangements, household structure, East-Central Europe, historical census microdata, serfdom, Historical family demography, comparative family history
LA  - English
ER  -