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dc.contributor.authorClementsson, Bonnie
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-20T09:52:49Z
dc.date.available2020-10-20T09:52:49Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.isbn9789198469905en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42645
dc.description.abstract"This study brings out the norms and culturally dependent values that formed the basis of the theoretical regulation and the practical handling of incest cases in Sweden 1680–1940, situating this development in a wider European context. It discusses a broad variety of general human subjects that are as important today as they were hundreds of years ago, such as love, death, family relations, religion, crimes, and punishments. By analysing criminal-case material and applications for dispensation, as well as political and legislative sources, the incest phenomenon is explored from different perspectives over a long time period. It turns out that although the incest debate has been dominated by religious, moral, and later medical beliefs, ideas about love, age, and family hierarchies often influenced the assessment of individual incest cases. These unspoken values could be decisive – sometimes life-determining – for the outcome of various incest cases. The book will interest scholars from several different fields of historical research, such as cultural history, the history of crime and of sexuality, family history, history of kinship, and historical marriage patterns. The long time period also broadens the number of potential readers. Since the subject concerns general human issues that are as current today as they were three centuries ago, the topic will also appeal to a non-academic audience. "en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNS Swedenen_US
dc.subject.otherincesten_US
dc.subject.otherincest tabooen_US
dc.subject.otherkinshipen_US
dc.subject.othermarriage applicationsen_US
dc.subject.otherfamily hierarchyen_US
dc.subject.otherfamily historyen_US
dc.subject.othercultural historyen_US
dc.titleIncest in Sweden, 1680–1940en_US
dc.title.alternativeA history of forbidden relationsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf82fb8cb-bc98-479f-9f26-c9f17b17cd13en_US
oapen.pages352en_US
oapen.place.publicationLunden_US


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