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Objectives

The project 1) creates online databases serving family reconstitution, 2) collects and publishes egodocuments, 3) produces studies yielding insights into stepfamily structures and experiences across several social strata and four centuries 4) creates an online exhibition and curriculum for university students, 5) organizes national and international conferences and workshops.
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Overview

Momentum “Integrating Families” Research Group is supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The project entitled Integrating Families: Children and the Stepfamily in the Kingdom of Hungary (16–19th Centuries) runs for five years. The project aims to study the history of the pre-modern family in Hungary, Europe and the world from a genuinely new perspective.
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events

2019. May 30. - 2019. May 31.
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Conference – Stepfamilies in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800

Conference in Budapest, Hungary, 30-31 May 2019. Co-organizers: Gabriella Erdélyi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Lyndan Warner, Saint...
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2018. June 23.
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Family Histories on the Night of Museums, 23 June 2018

Four members of the research group give lectures during the night! Topics: the stepfamilies of the 17th century Transylvanian princely family, the...
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2018. May 25.
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The conversation with research team members on Kossuth Radio

  Listen here the conversation with research team members concerning their latest results on Kossuth Radio...
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blog

2018. October 29. 21:14
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“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...
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2018. September 12. 14:39
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“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...
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2018. April 20. 13:17
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“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...
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