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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.875094
• Soggetto topico: Siblings - Europe - History; Kinship - Europe - History
• Altri autori: JohnsonChristopher H SabeanDavid Warren
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Sibling relations and the transformations of European kinship, 1300-1900
• ISBN: 1-78238-088-4; 0-85745-046-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808782103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II