Emotions in the Household, 1200–1900

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Emotions in the Household....Pages 1-37
Bonds of Affection between Children and Their Foster-Parents in Early Icelandic Society....Pages 38-52
Love Thy Chambermaid: Emotional and Physical Violence against the Servant in Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles....Pages 53-68
Humanist Educational and Emotional Expectations of Teenagers in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy....Pages 69-84
Humour and Household Relationships: Servants in Late Medieval and Sixteenth-Century French Farce....Pages 85-102
Fostering Girls in Early Modern France....Pages 103-118
‘Whether your Ladiship will or ne’: Displeasure, Duty and Devotion in The Lisle Letters....Pages 119-134
‘Good Friendship’ in the Household: Illicit Sexuality, Emotions and Women’s Relationships in Late Sixteenth-Century England....Pages 135-152
Resentment and Rebellion in the Scholarly Household: Son and Amanuensis in the Godefroy Family....Pages 153-169
Suspicion, Rivalry and Care: Mistresses and Maidservants in Early Modern Stockholm....Pages 170-184
‘A share of sorrows’: Death in the Early Modern English Household....Pages 185-202
Servants’ Social Networks and Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Turku and Odense....Pages 203-218
‘Creating a Life Together’: Utopian Households in the Work of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding....Pages 219-233
‘I was born in this palace’: Emotional Bonds in the Artistic Community of the Louvre (1750–1800)....Pages 234-251
The Social World of a Dutch Boy: The Diary of Otto van Eck (1791–1796)....Pages 252-268
Fictive Kinship: Wards and Foster-Parents in Nineteenth-Century France....Pages 269-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-288