Pratiques maritales et stratégies patrimoniales dans la société roumaine (XVIIIe siècle)

Abstract

In this article the married practices and the patrimonial strategies of the Rumanian society are explored in 18th century. Tilting between the law and the custom, the marriage created many problems to the different sectors from the peasantry. In the solution of those problems a narrow relation between the father and the marriage is noticed ; a father who not always obeyed the settled down rules and who did not doubt in creating all class of adjustments and agreements to guarantee his interests. By the moral and legislative obligation that anticipated the marriage of all his children, he was going to design married strategies and to create networks of solidarity with the objective to offer to its descendants (mainly to its children) an important social and symbolic capital in addition to the part of the heritage that corresponded to them. Everything aims at that in certain situations and layers of the peasantry that capital was more important that the given material goods.