Marriage Strategy Among the European Nobility

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Stefania Marcassa, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise; Jerome Pouyet, CNRS, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, Essec; Thomas Tregouet, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise

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Project Citation: 

Marcassa, Stefania, Pouyet, Jerome, and Tregouet, Thomas. Marriage Strategy Among the European Nobility. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-09-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E111802V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary The dataset has been constructed from the website of Herbert Stoyan, and contains records of the European nobles. We use this dataset to study the marriage patterns of the British and German nobility from the 1500s to the 1800s and document the differences in institutions between the two countries. In particular, we analyze the evolution of the degree of homogamy and exogamy in the marriage market of nobles and commoners. 
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Labex MME-DII (ANR11-LBX-0023-01)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Nobility; Titles; marriage rates; Matching; Homogamy; Exogamy; Commoners
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Europe
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1000 – 2000


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