The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe
This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective.
The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe contains a variety of approaches from different regions that each pose a challenge to commonplace views such as the emergence of confessional cultures, of private life, and of separate spheres of men and women. By analyzing a plethora of manifold sources including diaries, court records, paintings and domestic advice literature, this volume provides an overview of the domestic sphere as a location of work and consumption, conflict and cooperation, emotions and intimacy, and devotion and education. The book sheds light on changing relations between spouses, parents and children, masters and servants or apprentices, and humans and animals or plants, thereby exceeding the notion of the modern nuclear family.
This volume will be of great use to upper-level graduates, postgraduates and experienced scholars interested in the history of family, household, social space, gender, emotions, material culture, work and private life in early modern and nineteenth-century Europe.
Joachim Eibach is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Bern. He was Fernand Braudel-fellow at the European University Institute Florence and Principal Investigator of the Swiss National Science Foundation project Doing House and Family. He edited the handbook Das Haus in der Geschichte Europas (2015).
Margareth Lanzinger is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She was Visiting Professor at the Free University Berlin. Her second book deals with marriages between close relatives. She is Principal Investigator of the project The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces funded by the Austrian Wissenschaftsfonds FWF.
Advisory Editors: Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, Jon Mathieu, Claudia Opitz-Belakhal, Catherine Richardson
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Names: Eibach, Joachim, 1960- editor. | Lanzinger, Margareth, editor.
Title: The Routledge history of the domestic sphere in Europe : 16th to 19th century / edited by Joachim Eibach and Margareth Lanzinger.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: The Routledge histories | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020028664 | ISBN 9780367143671 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429031588 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Families--Europe--History. | Households--Europe--History. Classification: LCC HQ611 .R68 2021 | DDC 306.85094--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020028664
ISBN: 978-0-367-14367-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-03158-8 (ebk)
Maria gren is Professor in the History Department at Uppsala University. She has published on credit, iron production, property, marriage and work, mainly in the early modern period. As leader of the Gender and Work database and research project, she is engaged in the digital humanities. Among her most recent publications is The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialization in Urban Sweden, 16501780 (2017).
Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has written widely about the history of charity, medicine, material culture, gender and the domestic interior. Her books include the co-authored award-winning monograph Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (2013). She is now working on European perceptions of beauty and beauty-care in the Ottoman Empire.
Serena Dyer is Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at De Montfort University. She is a historian of dress, consumption and gender in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has co-edited Material Literacy in Eighteenth Century England: A Nation of Makers (2020), and is author of Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century (2021).
Joachim Eibach is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Bern. From 2015 to 2018 he was the Principal Investigator of the Swiss National Science Foundation-financed Sinergia Project Doing House and Family. He has published widely on the history of house, home and family, crime and criminal justice, urban history, politics of the era of transition and the works of Alexander von Humboldt.
Irene Galandra Cooper obtained her PhD at Cambridge, as part of the ERC-funded project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety on the Italian Renaissance Home, 14001600, focused on the materiality of devotion in sixteenth-century Neapolitan homes. After her postdoc within the project Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science she joined the Goldsmiths Company, London, as interim deputy curator.
