Gabriella Erdélyi is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest. She is principal investigator of the "Integrating Families: Stepfamilies and Children in the Past" Project and Research Group, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017-22). Her books include Negotiating Violence. Papal Pardons and Everyday Life in East Central Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2018) and A Cloister on Trial: Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).

Introduction / 1 Inheritance and Stepfamilies in Bohemian Rural Society (1650-1800) / 2 Magnate and Noble Stepfamilies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth / 3 Career Potentials of Stepchildren in the Lutheran Community of Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia), 1730-1850 / 4 Orphans and Stepchildren: The Impact of Parental Loss and Parental Remarriage on Children's First Marriages in Zsámbék in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / 5 Marriage, Widowhood, and Remarriage in the Székely Land (1830-1939) / 6 Mothering Half-Sisters. Maternal Love, Anger, and Authority in Early Modern Hungary / 7 Remarriage and Stepfamilies Among the Lutheran Urban Elite in Seventeenth-Century Hungary. Neo-Latin Wedding Poetry as Source / 8 Roads to Recomposed Families of the Nobility in Seventeenth-Century Transylvania / 9 Stepfamily Relations in Autobiographical Writings in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania / 10 'Her children to have as children of ours': Stepfamilies in the Romanian Principalities in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

This book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life with Northwestern Europe.