Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900 /

Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900 / / ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, David Warren Sabean.

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Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century, kinship - rather than declining, as is often assume...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Corbett, Mary Jean,
Davidoff, Leonore,
Delille, Gérard,
Derouet, Bernard,
Hohkamp, Michaela,
Johnson, Christopher H.,
Marschke, Benjamin,
Perry, Ruth,
Ruppel, Sophie,
Sabean, David Warren,
Schulte, Regina,
Spieß, Karl-Heinz,
HerausgeberIn:
Johnson, Christopher H.,
Sabean, David Warren,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction. From Siblingship to Siblinghood: Kinship and the Shaping of European Society (1300–1900)
  • PART ONE. PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND SIBLING STRATEGIES (LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN)
  • Chapter 1 Dowry: Sharing Inheritance or Exclusion? Timing, Destination, and Contents of Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
  • Chapter 2 Maintenance Regulations and Sibling Relations in the High Nobility of Late Medieval Germany
  • Chapter 3 Do Sisters Have Brothers? The Search for the “rechte Schwester” Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century
  • Chapter 4 Subordinates, Patrons, and Most Beloved: Sibling Relationships in Seventeenth-Century German Court Society
  • Chapter 5 The Crown Prince’s Brothers and Sisters: Succession and Inheritance Problems and Solutions among the Hohenzollerns, from the Great Elector to Frederick the Great
  • Chapter 6 Evolution within Sibling Groups from One Kinship System to Another (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
  • PART TWO. SIBLING RELATIONS, CLOSE MARRIAGE, AND HORIZONTAL KINSHIP, 1750–1900
  • Chapter 7 Brother Trouble: Murder and Incest in Scottish Ballads
  • Chapter 8 Siblinghood and the Emotional Dimensions of the New Kinship System, 1800–1850: A French Example
  • Chapter 9 Kinship and Issues of the Self in Europe around 1800
  • Chapter 10 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
  • Chapter 11 Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family
  • Chapter 12 Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case Of Anne, William, and Helen Gladstone
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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