"Prunci zămisliţi, prunci nedoriţi" despre cazurile de avort din Districtul Năsăudului (1861-1876)

  • Subiect: Abortions were practiced from old times to cut out some undesirable pregnancies, but, unfortunately, in the Transylvanian space from the second part of the 19th century, there are a limited number of documents which attests the existence of these. An exception is represented by the Năsăud region where there have been preserved, for the activity period of the District (1861-1876), in the archive of the supreme court of jurisdiction from that times - General Court of the District - a series of undiscovered juridical documents and extremely interesting cases which implies the abortion, which show the presence of these practices in the geographic area mentioned in the second part of the 191h century. Thus, to detect the implications of the phenomena within the society from Năsăud, in the content of this study I had as a main purpose the analysis and the interpretation of these cases, but in the same time the penal legislation which was in force in Transylvania, as well as the folkloric, medical and literary writings from the epoch which refers, directly or indirectly to the abortion and infanticide. How was the abortions procedure? What kinds of herbs or objects were used? Which was the attitude of the community of the laic and church authorities on these practices? These are only few questions to which this article wants to respond, so that finally, the individuality of these characters, like a puzzle game to contribute to the whole mental characteristics adjustment of the people from Năsăud, from the second part of the 19th century, with their multiple and complex problems from the day-to-day.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Vezi publicația: Revista Bistriţei: RB
  • Editura: Accent
  • Loc publicare: Cluj-Napoca
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2011
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXV; anul 2011
  • Paginaţia: 214-225
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