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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 provi...
Fragile Families
In the era of bourgeois modernity (1750–1900), the family is as valued as it is vulnerable. It constitutes a community of care, conflict, and emotion. Time and again, it is evoked as a bond of love as well as a moral institution. Yet both love and morality are fragile. A more detailed exploration reveals that domestic life during this period was much more colorful, open, and dynamic – and also more prone to crisis – than one might expect given the vaunted view of the family that characterized the heyday of the bourgeoisie. This book rewrites the history of the modern family. Self-narratives – primarily diaries – written by members of eight families from Germany, Switzerland, and Au...
Das Haus in der Geschichte Europas
Das Handbuch verbindet zwei Ziele. Erstens geht es um die interdisziplinär von aktuellen Debatten in den Sozial- und den Kulturwissenschaften angeregte Neukonzeptualisierung der Kategorie ‚Haus‘. Zweitens wird dem Publikum ein europäisches Panorama der Forschung im Hinblick auf Haus, Haushalt und Häuslichkeit in seinen historischen Dimensionen vorgelegt. Dies geschieht notwendigerweise ausschnitthaft, d.h. durch Konzentration auf ausgewählte und maßgebliche Aspekte.
Fragile Familien
Das Buch bietet eine neue Geschichte der Familie in der Ära der bürgerlichen Moderne. Als Quellen dienen Selbstzeugnisse, in erster Linie Tagebücher, aber auch Briefe und autobiographische Texte, von acht Familien aus verschiedenen Milieus im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ein Hauptanliegen ist es, den Bias der historischen Familienforschung für das Bürgertum zu überwinden, ohne aber die Bürgerlichkeit aus der Geschichte völlig herauszuschreiben. Präsentiert werden neue Einblicke in den familiären Alltag in der ländlichen Gesellschaft, im Patriziat, Bildungsbürgertum, Pfarrhaus, Handwerk, Kleinbürgertum, in der Arbeiterschaft mit Migrationshintergrund sowie im Künstlertum und Aussteig...
Thieves in Court
An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.
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A Delicate Choreography
The origins of the incest taboo have puzzled many of the most influential minds of the West, from Plutarch to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, David Hume, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Edward Westermarck, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. This book puts the discussion of incest on a new foundation. It is the first attempt to thoroughly examine the rich literature, from philosophical, theological, and legal treatises to psychological and biological-genetic studies, to a wide variety of popular cultural media over a long period of time. The book offers a detailed examination of discursive and figurative representations of incest during five selected periods, from ...
The Battle for Central Europe
In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age. Contributors include Gábor Ágoston, János B. Szabó, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Günhan Börekçi, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, István Fazekas, Pál Fodor, Klára Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbić, József Kelenik, Zoltán Korpás, Tijana Krstić, Nenad Moačanin, Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Erol Özvar, Géza Pálffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Römer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarım, James D. Tracy, Gábor Tüskés, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.
Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.
