1st Edition
The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe 16th to 19th Century
Introduction: continuities and transformations in the history of the domestic sphere
Part 1: Language and discourse
1. Domestic terminologies: house, household, family
Jon Mathieu
2. Domestic advice literature: an entangled history?
Philip Hahn
Part 2: Legal settings and domestic hierarchies
3. Spouses and the competition for wealth
Margareth Lanzinger
4. Constructing and challenging dependence: masters and servants
Raffaella Sarti
Part 3: The domestic sphere as space of work
5. Paid and unpaid work
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
6. Lower state servants and home office work
Maria Ågren
7. Scholarly households
Sebastian Kühn
Part 4: Leisure and sociability
8. Leisure and the household
Catherine Richardson
9. Domestic sociability and the emergence of the bürgertum
Frank Hatje
Part 5: consumption and material culture
10. Gender and consumption in the household economy
Jane Whittle
11. Making the material home: consumption, craft and gender
Serena Dyer
Part 6: Domestic conflict and violence
12. Sexual violence and domesticity
Julie Hardwick
13. Managing conflicts and making peace
Inken Schmidt-Voges and Katharina Simon
Part 7: Emotions and intimacy
14. A space of emotions
Claudia Opitz-Belakhal
15. Sexuality and intimacy
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb
Part 8: Child-rearing and education
16. Parental care and the emergence of a new pedagogical discourse
Sylvie Moret Petrini
17. Learning at home: class, religion, gender and family
Mary Clare Martin
Part 9: Privacy and the emergence of separate spheres?
18. From open house to privacy? Domestic life from the perspective of diaries
Joachim Eibach
19. Gender implications of the separate spheres
Elisabeth Joris
Part 10: Semi-public Spaces
20. The urban Balkan home: the flower garden as a young girl’s place
Kristina Popova
21. Negotiating intermediate spaces: caretakers, doormen and concierges
Jens Wietschorke
Part 11: The domestic sphere as a religious space
22. Shaping confessional identities in the urban home
Suzanna Ivanic and Irene Galandra Cooper
23. Religion and domesticity
Tine van Osselaer and Alexander Maurits
Part 12: Health and food preparation
24. The domestic culture of health
Sandra Cavallo
25. Food preparation and meals in a gendered perspective
Raffaella Sarti
Part 13: Animals and plants
26. Dogs as domestic animals
Aline Steinbrecher
27. Houseplants and the invention of indoor gardening
Sophie Ruppel
Part 14: Images and identity constructs
28. Dutch paintings of interiors and the invention of a bourgeois identity
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat
29. The national house and home in the Polish literature and culture
Monika Szczepaniak
Biography
Joachim Eibach is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Bern. He was Fernand Braudel-fellow at European University Institute Florence and Principle Investigator of the Swiss National Science Foundation project Doing House and Family. He edited the handbook Das Haus in der Geschichte Europas (2015).
Margareth Lanzinger is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She was Visiting Professor at the Free University Berlin. Her second book deals with marriages between close relatives. She is Principal Investigator of the project The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces funded by the Austrian Wissenschaftsfonds FWF.
