Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries
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John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0253029651
ISBN13:9780253029652
Release Date:October 2017
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:346 Pages
Weight:1.51 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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