1st Edition
Academic Households in Early Modern Northern Europe
1. Academic Households and Families in Early Modern Northern Europe: An Introduction
Mari Välimäki, Minna Vesa, & Robin Engblom
Part 1: Family Ideals and Practices
2. Dissertations on Family and Marriage in the Seventeenth-Century Swedish Realm
Minna Vesa
3. Martin Luther’s Emotional Practices and Family Life in the Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg
Sini Mikkola
4. The Multifaceted Agency of Professors’ Wives in the Seventeenth-Century Turku
Mari Välimäki
5. The Agency of Lecturers’ Widows in the Late Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Vyborg
Miia Kuha
Part 2: Family Networks
6. Transfer and Management of Property in Marburg Professors’ Families in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Christina Stehling
7. Family Networks of Scholarly Households in Turku during the turn of the Eighteenth-Century
Robin Engblom
8. Godparenthood in Professorial Households in the Eighteenth-Century Uppsala
Gudrun Andersson
Part 3: Written and Material Self-Fashioning
9. Representing Family Relations through Occasional Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Turku
Eeva-Liisa Bastman & Sari Kivistö
10. Identity and Materiality in the Linnaeus Household in the Eighteenth-Century Uppsala
Annika Windahl Pontén
11. Objectified Cultural Capital and Self-fashioning in the Ekerman-Aurivillius Professorial Dynasty in Uppsala during the turn of the Nineteenth-Century
Hannes Eriksson
Biography
Mari Välimäki is an Associate Professor (title of Docent) at the University of Turku, Finland, and has led the project The Professor’s Household – The Royal Academy of Turku as a Family Network in the 17th Century at Tampere University, Finland (2022–2025). Her research interests include the histories of universities, family, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.
