| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) |
| Contents |
Emotions in the household / Susan Broomhall -- Bonds of affection between children and their foster-parents in early Icelandic society / Anna Hansen -- Love thy chambermaid : emotional and physical violence against the servant in Les cent nouvelles nouvelles / Tovi Bibring -- Humanist educational and emotional expectations of teenagers in late fifteenth-century Italy / Ruth Chavasse -- Humour and household relationships : servants in late medieval and sixteenth-century French farce / Sarah Gordon -- Fostering girls in early modern France / Tracy Adams -- 'Whether your ladiship will or ne' : displeasure, duty and devotion in The Lisle letters / Catherine Mann -- 'Good friendship' in the household : illicit sexuality, emotions and women's relationships in late sixteenth-century England / Stephanie Tarbin -- Resentment and rebellion in the scholarly household : son and amanuensis in the Godefroy family / Caroline R. Sherman -- Suspicion, rivalry and care : mistresses and maidservants in early modern Stockholm / Marko Lamberg -- 'A share of sorrows' : death in the early modern English household / Andrea Brady -- Servants' social networks and relationships in eighteenth-century Turku and Odense / Kirsi Ojala -- 'Creating a life together' : utopian households in the work of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding / Nicole Pohl -- 'I was born in this palace' : emotional bonds in the artistic community of the Louvre (1750-1800) / Emmanuelle Philippe and Séverine Sofio -- The social world of a Dutch boy : the diary of Otto van Eck (1791-1796) / Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker -- Fictive kinship : wards and foster-parents in nineteenth-century France / Ivan Jablonka |
| Summary |
This collection asks new questions about the household, examining the kinds of positive and negative emotional scope available to household members drawn together by shared economic, social and biological needs rather than by blood ties. Through a range of case studies across Western Europe, the collection uses varied methodological approaches and sources to explore the emotional life of the pre-modern household |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Households -- Europe -- History
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Households -- Europe -- Psychological aspects -- History
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Families -- Europe -- History
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Household employees -- Europe -- History
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Social & cultural history.
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Perception.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Conflict Resolution.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Elder Abuse.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Family Relationships.
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History.
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Families
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Household employees
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Households
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045753
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Broomhall, Susan.
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| ISBN |
9780230286092 |
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0230286097 |
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1349360600 |
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9781349360604 |
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