| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
From siblingship to siblinghood : kinship and the shaping of European society (1300- 1900) / Christopher H. Johnson and David Warren Sabean -- Dowry : sharing inheritance or exclusion? timing, destination, and contents of transmission in late medieval and early modern France / Bernard Derouet -- Maintenance regulations and sibling relations in the high nobility of late medieval Germany / Karl-Heinz Spiess -- Do sisters have brothers? : or the search for the "rechte Schwester" : brothers and sisters in aristocratic society at the turn of the sixteenth century / Michaela Hohkamp -- Subordinates, patrons, and most beloved : sibling relationships in seventeenth-century German court society / Sophie Ruppel -- The crown prince's brothers and sisters : succession and inheritance problems and solutions among the Hohenzollerns, from the Great Elector to Frederick the Great / Benjamin Marschke -- The evolution within sibling groups from one kinship system to another (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) / Gerard Delille -- Brother trouble : murder and incest in Scottish ballads / Ruth Perry -- Siblinghood and the emotional dimensions of the new kinship system, 1800-1850 : a French example / Christopher H. Johnson -- Kinship and issues of the self in Europe around 1800 / David Warren Sabean -- Sisters, wives, and the sublimation of desire in a Jewish-protestant friendship : the letters of the historian Johann Gustav Droysen and the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Regina Schulte -- Husband, wife, and sister : making and remaking the early Victorian family / Mary Jean Corbett -- Gender and age in nineteenth-century Britain : the case of Anne, William, and Helen Gladstone / Leonore Davidoff |
| Summary |
Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century, kinship - rather than declining, as is often assumed - was twice reconfigured in dramatic ways and became increasingly significant as a force in historical change, with remarkable similarities across European society. Applying interdisciplinary approaches from social and cultural history and literature and focusing on sibling relationships, this vol |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Siblings -- Europe -- History
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Kinship -- Europe -- History
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Siblings.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Siblings
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Kinship
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Christopher H
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Sabean, David Warren
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| LC no. |
2010029805 |
| ISBN |
9780857450463 |
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0857450468 |
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