Sibling relations and the transformations of European kinship, 1300-1900 / edited by Christopher H. Johnson and David Warren Sabean.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Johnson, Christopher H.; Sabean, David Warren.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 356 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.