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Peasant sexuality in eighteenth-century Hungary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

István György Tóth
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Continuity and Change , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , May 1991 , pp. 43 - 58
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3 HNA P 707. Archives of Zichy family, 449. Lad. 521. Fasc. 280, no. 6.

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5 Archives of Csongrád county, Szentes, Károlyi, Uriszék, a. 32. 28. October 1766.

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16 HNA P 235. 136. Festetich-no. 58. A. 18 August 1738.

17 HNA Film 6871. County of Sopron, no. 505. Fasc. 1, no. 10, 21 May 1770.

18 HNA P 157.67. Esterházy XVIII, 8, 19 May 1752.

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32 Archives of Csongrád county, Szentes, Károlyi, IV. A. 53. a. 28. 14 April 1761.

33 HNA P 707/430. Zichy. Fasc. 264 and B. no. 7. 20 November 1737.

34 Státny Oblastny Archiv, Bratislava, Proc. crim. Trestné spisy, A XII.

35 HNA Film 16856. Prothocollum malefactorum, Nagykoros, 23 April 1787.

36 Státny Oblastny Archiv, Kosice, Comitatus Abaujváriensis, Trestné pisomnosti, Fasc. VI, no. 27.

37 Státny Oblastny Archiv, Banská Bystrica, Comitatus Gömöriensis, Proc. magistr. 666. Fasc. VI. no. 335.

38 HNA E 694./24/. Szepesi kamara, Tokaji uradalmi ügyészég, 16 August 1765.

39 Státny Ustredny Archiv, Bratislava, Pálffy, Panská stolica 599. (1838). 2 October 1747.

40 HNA P 707. Zichy (448) Fasc. 280, no. 4. 29 December 1734.

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42 HNA P 157. 62. V. 35. Esterházy, 17 May 1729. and ibid, XIX. 12. (1754).

43 HNA P 707. 435. Zichy. Fasc. 267, no. 378, HNA P 1322. 191. Batthyány p. 552. 5 September 1773, HNA P 707. 430. Zichy Fasc. 265, no. 50, HNA P 623. III. 2. N. no. 43. Széchényi.

44 HNA P 235. 136. Festetich no. 89. 22 November 1756.

45 Státny Oblastny Archiv, Bratislava, Proc. crim. no. 31 16 August 1756.

46 Ibid, no. 124 and 126.

47 HNA R 320. (2). 29 July 1793.

48 Archives of Somogy county, Kaposvár, Processus magistratuales, I. index, no. 521, Péter Tóth, A szexuális deviancia, mint egyéni és társadalmi konfliktusok feloldása a XVIII. században (Sexual deviancy as resolution for personal and social conflicts in the eighteenth century). (Palócföld, 1990 (2) XXIV), 39–44.