ISBN:
9781845457693
,
9781782380870
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 356 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900
DDC:
306.875094
Keywords:
Brothers and sisters History
;
Kinship History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 assumed - was twice reconfigured in dramatic ways and became increasingly significant as a force in historical change, with remarkable similarities across European society. Applying interdisciplinary approaches from social and cultural history and literature and focusing on sibling relationships, this vol
Description / Table of Contents:
Sibling Relations and theTransformations of European Kinship,1300-1900; Contents; Figures and Illustrations; Preface; Introduction - From Sibling 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
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Chapter 3 - Do Sisters Have Brothers? The Search for the "rechte Schwester": Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 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)
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Part Two - Sibling Relations, Close Marriage, and Horizontal Kinship, 1750-1900Chapter 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
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Chapter 12 - Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Anne, William, and Helen GladstoneNotes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index;
Description / 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Sibling Relations and theTransformations of European Kinship,1300-1900; Contents; Figures and Illustrations; Preface; Introduction - From Sibling 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3 - Do Sisters Have Brothers? The Search for the ""rechte Schwester"": Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 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)
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Two - Sibling Relations, Close Marriage, and Horizontal Kinship, 1750-1900Chapter 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12 - Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Anne, William, and Helen GladstoneNotes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
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