СЕСИЛНОСТ КАО ИСТОРИЈСКОАНТРОПОЛОШКИ ПРОБЛЕМ: ПИСМА АПОСТОЛСКОГ ПЕНИТЕНЦИЈАРА О БРАЧНОЈ ДИСПЕНЗАЦИЈИ ИЗ XVII И XVIII ВЕКА КАО ПОВОД ЗА ПРЕИСПИТИВАЊЕ ОГРАНИЧЕЊА ДИСКУРСА О МИГРАЦИЈАМА
Succulence as an anthropological problem: The letters of the Apostolic Penitentiary on the marital dispensation from the 17th and 18th centuries as an inducement for re-examining the limitations of discourse on migration

Summary/Abstract: In Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, marital dispensation was a common phenomenon. A special group of these dispensations consists of those related to marriages between close relatives. The potential of this institution of the Catholic Church, in terms of contributing to the understanding of human mobility, has been largely ignored, although the effects it produces may be most evident in the discourse on spatial mobility. More precisely, this institution or practice can be approached as a form of discouraging marital migrations, or as a form of stimulating spatial stateness. For the purpose of this essay, an attempt was made, through a discursive analysis of the letters of the Apostolic Penitentiary to the bishops throughout Italy from that period, to determine which discursive practices the authorities used to justify this phenomenon. A link between marital dispensation and anti-emigration tendencies has already been indirectly indicated by numerous studies in biophysical anthropology, but has not been the subject of research of sociocultural anthropologists, which could give this problem a deeper cultural dimension.

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