A láthatatlan asszony. Salgai Kata házasságai
The Invisible Woman. Marriages of Kata Salgai

Summary/Abstract: In the early modern period, those “invisible women” are common, whose fate and character unfold only in the mirror of their husbands’ letters to them. The analysis of the letters makes it possible to examine the dynamics of the marital relationship. The fate of Kata Salgai is remarkable because, as the only child of her parents, she not only received the daughter’s quarter according to customary inheritance law, but also had a respectable dowry. The sources prove how his wealth expanded his scope of action. Both of his marriages can be modeled as economic enterprises in which the wife invested money and the husband social prestige, and from which, through the conjugal union, both parties profited.

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