Ce înseamna „neînțelegeri în căsnicii” în Oltenia mijlocul de secol XIX?
What „Misunderstandings in Marriages” Meant in Oltenia in the Middle of the 19th Century?

Summary/Abstract: The frequency of the term „misunderstandings in marriages” is visible in the inventory of the Archdiocese of Dolj for the investigated period, 1842-1850. It obviously leads to divorce, but it highlights a broader socio-cultural landscape, which only the frequent use of such archival sources and their careful interpretation can give us back correctly. Because divorce is not just a liminal threshold, an intermediate point between marriage and death and a modern rite of passage (an ethnological look can be useful here). Searching through the archives of documents, the historian has the opportunity to discover this phenomenon placed at the intersection of several eyes, that of those directly involved, relatives summoned as mediators or witnesses, neighbours, local community, but also institutions, involved such as the Orthodox Church or courts, the civil court that starts operating in Wallachia, for which divorce is associated with the division of property, restoring the social status of those affected by it, compliance with legal rules that define rights, values, principles to which individuals adhere, as members of the social community. The present paper is based on the investigation of the files of several cases kept in the archive of the Archdiocese of Dolj [Protoieria Dolj] from the Dolj County Service of the National Archives, for a period under the sign of the Organic Regulations. „Misunderstandings in marriages” affects a wider social environment, in a wider urban and rural area, where along with boyars and merchants, we also meet bakers, rotarians, innkeepers, pig farmers, shepherds, peasants from the villages around Craiova. Each case is a story in itself, which testifies to the failure of a cohabitation, the efforts made in order to save it, sometimes with a lower or higher chance of success

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