Widow conservation
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widow-conservation-311-7745928
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Widow conservation
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Widow conservation was a practice in Protestant Europe in the early modern age, when the widow of a parish vicar would marry her husband's successor to the vicarage to ensure her economic support. The practice was common in Scandinavia (Änkekonservering/Enkekonservering) and Protestant parts of Germany. It is related to other forms of widow inheritance, including the levirate marriage known in the Old Testament as yibbum. At the introduction of the Protestant Reformation, priests were allowed to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_conservation
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2024-04-19T01:31:35Z
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