Szülő-gyermek kapcsolat az Apor családban
The Parent-Child Relationship in the Apor Family

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on parent-child relationships in the family of the Transylvanian historiographer Péter Apor. He and his wife, Borbála Kálnoki, were married between 1699 and 1744, and five of their children reached adulthood. Drawing on the family’s correspondence, the study investigates the parents’ attitudes toward their children in different stages of their lives (infancy, childhood, school age, and young adulthood) and the ways in which emotions were expressed among the family members. The letters show constant change in the parent-children relationship and a transformation of the balance of power with the passing of time. One also notices the different rhetorical strategies used by the family members to emphasize the emotions they wanted to convey in writing.

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