The article is devoted to the study of divorce cases initiated by men from peasant class following adultery their wives. identify specifics, common and distinctive features marriages dissolution caused female in second half 19th – early 20th century Yaroslavl, Tver, Tobolsk spiritual consistories. source base previously unknown archival materials State Archive Yaroslavl Region, Tver Tobolsk. Do...

This article investigates the representation of “dulle Griet” by the seventeenthcentury artists David II Teniers and David III Ryckaert in the context of Catholic Flanders. In a society preoccupied with hierarchical order both the state and church aimed to root out archaic beliefs and customs, and to save society from witchcraft. The representations of mad Meg are interpreted as comic archaisms...