Kolektīvā monogrāfija "Radniecība un valsts īstenošana mūsdienu Latvijā"

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Radniecība un valsts attiecības Livonijā 13.–16. gadsimtā (ar ieskatu līdz 19. gadsimtam)
(Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2024) Stikāne, Vija; Turaidas muzejrezervāts
In Chapter 3 of the book "Kinship and State Performance in Contemporary Latvia", historian Vija Stikāne analyses the manifestations of kinship in the territory of modern Latvia until the mid-19th century. The chapter presents a surprisingly diverse and, from a modern perspective, unusual picture in which various expressions of kinship (e.g., what counts as kin for the purposes of inheritance or marriage) are often contradictory, ambiguous and fluid. With the onset of first compilations of laws in the 13th century, administrative institutions have attempted at regulating both the “correct” relationships and determining whose inheritance is legitimate. In medieval urban society and among the aristocracy, a special role is played by marriages conducted by the church (“real marriages”). The kinship relations of the peasant class until the mid-19th century are relatively insignificant and difficult to trace. Aristocrats, on the contrary, display strong interest not only in their own ancestors, but also in the regulation of in-laws, property relations, and permissible marriage between different categories. For the Medieval townspeople, especially for the guilds of craftsmen, kinship through the father’s or mother’s line was often a prerequisite for permission to engage in a profession.