Esterházy Miklós mint családfő: utódlás és érzelmek egy 17. századi arisztokrata dinasztiában és mozaikcsaládban
Miklós Esterházy as Paterfamilias. Succession and Emotions in a Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Dynasty and Stepfamily

Summary/Abstract: The study investigates the ways the performance of the responsibilities of an aristocratic ”anxious patriarch” modified in a stepfamily context. It focuses on the central concern of patriarchs to secure the continuity of the lineage by designating an heir and peacefully transmit the wealth and prestige to the next generation. By reading the testaments, family correspondence and the exceptional series of instructions to his eldest son, the case study shows what kind of strategies the stepfamily patriarch, Miklós Esterházy applied in order to maintain family concord and solidarity in the face of a latent rivalry between his half-sibling sons for the position of the family patriarch.

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