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The presented master thesis deals with the work of Jane Austen. The author's novels are analysed from the perspective of the concept of the family, both from a literary and demographic point of view. These research questions constitutes two subject of the examination. The first subject is the family, as it is the cornerstone of Jane Austen's short stories. The objective of this work is to analyse the extent to which family relationships determine the possibilities of the main characters and heroines; how the heroines benefit from family ties or, on the contrary, want to escape from them. The conclusions show that Austen applied this determination in all studied novels. This work further examines the degree of cooperation and rivalry of the individual families in the novels. At this point, a significant diversity of interfamily relationships was found. Secondly, this work maps selected demographic idiosyncrasies in Jane Austen's family, in the families from her short stories, and in historical demographic studies of England at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. This thesis focuses on the number and composition of individual families, their origin, social status, property relations and to some extent legal relationships, mainly related to the issue of inheritance and the situation of widows in...

Master’s thesis is devoted to analysis of extremely high infant mortality in late 19th – early 20th centuries Ekaterinburg. The research based on Voznesenskaya church books data 1889–1916 transcribed into digital database “Ural Population Project”. The author reconstructed the dynamics, seasonality and causes of phenomenon using methods of historical demography. Foreign, all-Russian, provincial and county data were used for comprehensive comparative analysis that let do some conclusions about special features of Ekaterinburg infant mortality. / Магистерская диссертация посвящена исследованию феномена сверхвысокой младенческой смертности в Екатеринбурге конца XIX – начала XX в. На основе данных метрических книг Градо-Екатеринбургского Вознесенского прихода за период с 1889 по 1916 гг., транскрибированных в электронную базу данных «Регистр населения Урала», с помощью методов исторической демографии была реконструирована динамика, сезонность и причинность явления. Привлечение зарубежных, общероссийских, губернских и уездных данных позволило провести компаративный анализ и сделать ряд выводов о специфике екатеринбургских показателей.

Выпускная квалификационная посвящена анализу социально-демографических процессов в позднеимперском российском городе. В качестве примера выбран Екатеринбург – крупный, быстро развивающийся город на Урале и один из его старейших православных приходов. Исследование выполнено на основе разнообразных источников, ключевым из которых являются метрические книги за 1900-1919 гг., сведения их которых были транскрибированы в базу данных и проанализированы с использованием компьютерных технологий. Диссертация состоит из трех глав, в которых последовательно рассмотрены сюжеты, связанные с историей прихода, брачностью и рождаемостью. Проведенная работа позволяет представить социальный облик прихода, отметить демографические тенденции в городском сообществе начала XX в., определить перспективные направления в дальнейшем исследовании. Концентрация внимания на отдельном православном приходе позволила реконструировать детали функционирования городского сообщества; проследить реакцию населения на социально-политические изменения в стране; оценить степень развития демографического перехода и модернизации семейно-брачных отношений екатеринбуржцев. / The presented MA dissertation focuses on the social and demographic processes development in the late imperial Russian city. As an example, Yekaterinburg was chosen - a large, rapidly developing city in the Urals and one of its oldest Orthodox parishes. The study based on various sources, the main ones – the St. Ekaterina church parish registers (metricheskie knigi) dated from 1901 to 1919, which were transcribed into the database and analyzed using computer methods. The dissertation consists of three chapters, which sequentially deal with the history of the parish, marriage and fertility. The work carried out allows the deeper understanding of the social development and main demographic trends in the urban community at the beginning of the 20th century and to determine areas for further research. Focusing on a single Orthodox parish made it possible to reconstruct the details of the urban community’s life; to trace the population reaction towards the socio-political changes in the country and estimate the demographic transition development and modernization in the sphere of family and marriage in Yekaterinburg.

The thesis being hereby presented is concerned with the problematics of family strategies´ aplications in peasants´ families in the village of Vítkov, dated 1700-1850. The work itself is based upon analysis of evidence- and insurance resources, that means mostly registry and cadastral books, urbars and census of subjects. Methodologically, this work proceeds from historical demography and its connection with micro-history and genealogy. Transfers of peasants´s grounds and application of their rights of hertitage become the main subject of research. Secondly, this thesis focuses on peasants life partners choices, families´ maritial strategies and migration. In addition, there are ways of employment drafted for those rural families´ members who had no claim to taking over a paternal ground, thusly achieving to give evidence of how different the family strategies in two contiguous parts of South Bohemia would once have been. The substantial asset of this thesis supposed is to confirm the benefits of joining both historical demography and genealogy whist studying Czech rural areas including possible use of specialised genealogical software.