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Article: Heirat als Privileg: Obrigkeitliche Heiratsbeschrankungen in Tirol und Vorarlberg 1820 bis 1920.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 1999
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By Elisabeth Mantl (Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. 262pp.).
One of the most peculiar and distinctive aspects of the nineteenth century sociodemographic regime in southern Germany and the Alpine lands were the legal limitations on nuptiality. Couples of legal age could not simply get married; they had to meet property qualifications and/or gain the approval of the local authorities, before they could be wed. Elisabeth Mantl's study of "marriage as privilege," examines this practice in the Austrian province of the Tirol and Vorarlberg, a region where these legal limitations on marriage lasted longer than elsewhere and reached quite extreme proportions.