Servants in Rural Europe
1400-1900
1st Edition
Published on 17. November 2017
286 pages
978-1-78744-137-8 (ISBN)
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This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
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Whittle Jane:
JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.Fertig Christine:
Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe.Whittle Jane:
JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.Paping Richard:
Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century.Lambrecht Thijs:
THIJS LAMBRECHT is Lecturer in Rural History at the University of Ghent.
JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.Fertig Christine:
Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe.Whittle Jane:
JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.Paping Richard:
Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century.Lambrecht Thijs:
THIJS LAMBRECHT is Lecturer in Rural History at the University of Ghent.
Content
Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe - Jane Whittle
The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case-Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges - Lies Vervaet
The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective - Thijs Lambrecht
A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500-1660 - Jane Whittle
Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550-1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered - Charmian Mansell
Life-cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c. 1670-1730 - Christina Prytz
Servants in Rural Norway, c.1650-1800 - Hanne Osthus
Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, Northwestern Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside - Christine Fertig
Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700-1872: Change and Continuity over Two Centuries - Jeremy Hayhoe
The Servant Institution during the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience - Carolina Uppenberg
Farm service and hiring practices in mid nineteenth-century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire - Sarah Holland
Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class - Richard Paping
Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries) - Raffaella Sarti
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The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case-Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges - Lies Vervaet
The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective - Thijs Lambrecht
A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500-1660 - Jane Whittle
Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550-1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered - Charmian Mansell
Life-cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c. 1670-1730 - Christina Prytz
Servants in Rural Norway, c.1650-1800 - Hanne Osthus
Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, Northwestern Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside - Christine Fertig
Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700-1872: Change and Continuity over Two Centuries - Jeremy Hayhoe
The Servant Institution during the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience - Carolina Uppenberg
Farm service and hiring practices in mid nineteenth-century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire - Sarah Holland
Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class - Richard Paping
Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries) - Raffaella Sarti
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