The marriage dowries of peasant families of Minho, North of Portugal, in the modern era

Araújo, Maria Marta Lobo de; Esteves, Alexandra Patrícia Lopes

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Araújo, Maria Marta Lobo de

Esteves, Alexandra Patrícia Lopes

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Our study focuses on the dowries of marriage of peasant families of Minho in the Modern Age and seeks to highlight the position of women at an important moment of your life-marriage. How to marry a daughter without a dowry was difficult, the families sought to provide them the best they could, resorting too often to the portion available to do so.