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Les dispenses de bans. Une source pour la démographie historique et l'histoire sociale

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  • Rosa Congost
  • Josep Portell
  • Enric Saguer
  • Albert Serramontmany

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In certain regions of Spain, it was customary among the Catholic population to request a dispensation from banns. A study of this practice since the seventeenth century in Catalonia sheds new light on marriages in the region. This short paper focuses on the archives of the diocese of Girona, with a study of the content, characteristics and continuity of this data source and an assessment of its representativeness. It also examines the motives behind the requests by most of the population for a dispensation from banns before marriage. Thanks to their serial nature, to the abundant information contained in the files associated with each request for dispensation, and the opportunities they provide to work at the diocesan level, i.e. over a relatively wide area comprising a large number of parishes, dispensations from banns provide an exceptional data source for historical demography and social history.

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  • Rosa Congost & Josep Portell & Enric Saguer & Albert Serramontmany, 2012. "Les dispenses de bans. Une source pour la démographie historique et l'histoire sociale," Population (french edition), Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED), vol. 67(3), pages 549-563.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:popine:popu_1203_0549
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