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.
Emotions in the Household; S.Broomhall
Bonds of Affection between Children and Their Foster-Parents in Early Icelandic Society; A.Hansen
Love Thy Chambermaid: Emotional and Physical Violence against the Servant in Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles; T.Bibring
Humanist Educational and Emotional Expectations from Teenagers in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy; R.Chavasse
Humour and Household Relationships: Servants in Late Medieval and Sixteenth-century French Farce; S.Gordon
Fostering Girls in Early Modern France; T.Adams
'Whether your Ladiship will or ne': Displeasure, duty and devotion in The Lisle Letters; C.Mann
'Good friendship' in the Household: Illicit sexuality, Emotions and Women's Relationships in Late Sixteenth-century England; S.Tarbin
Resentment and Rebellion in the Scholarly Household: Son and Amanuensis in the Godefroy Family; C.R.Sherman
Suspicion, Rivalry and Care: Mistresses and Maidservants in Early Modern Stockholm; M.Lamberg
'A share of sorrows': Death in the Early Modern English Household; A.Brady
Servants' Social Networks and Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Turku and Odense; K.Ojala
'Creating a Life together': Utopian Households in the Work of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding; N.Pohl
'I was born in this palace': Emotional Bonds in the Artistic Community of the Louvre (1750-1800); E.Philippe & S.Sofio
The Social World of a Dutch Boy: The Diary of Otto van Eck (1791-1796); A.Baggerman & R.Dekker
Fictive Kinship: Wards and Foster Parents in Nineteenth-century France; I.Jablonka
SUSAN BROOMHALL teaches early modern history at The University of Western Australia and is author of Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France (2002), Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France (2004) and Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France (2006).