Energy in the Early Modern Home: Material Cultures of Domestic Energy Consumption in Europe, 1450–1850

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Contents
Contributors
Energy in the early modern home
	Notes
	References
Part I: The materiality of energy: Fuels, technologies and practices
1. Continuity and change in the search for domestic warmth: Material culture, fuels and practices (France, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries)
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The use of the fireplace: aspects and problems
	1.3 'Search for warmth' rather than 'home heating'
	1.4 The fundamental problem of access to energy
	1.5 The subtle hierarchy of fuels
	1.6 The mechanics of change
	1.7 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2. A Warm Renaissance: Material culture and heating techniques in Venetian artisans' homes (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries)
	2.1 Introduction
		2.1.1 Sources
	2.2 Living with limited resources: society, economy and architecture
		2.2.1 Social status and economic means
		2.2.2 Popular housing
	2.3 Producing and preserving heat
		2.3.1 Producing energy
		2.3.2 Producing and using heat
	2.4 Energy-saving techniques and tricks
		2.4.1 Maintaining warmth
		2.4.2 Preserving body warmth: layering clothing
		2.4.3 Recipes for keeping warm: the books of secrets
	2.5 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
3. Between home and manufacturing. The use of wood and charcoal in early modern Northern Italy: Two case studies
	3.1 Introduction: aims, topic and methodology
	3.2 Notes on wood consumption in Bologna and Milan during the eighteenth century: the context
	3.3 What affected wood prices?
	3.4 Notes about wood and charcoal consumption in the valleys of Eastern Lombardy
	Notes
	References
	Appendix
Part II: The cultural life of energy: Comfort, consumer culture and domesticity
4. Fireplaces and stoves as icons of comfort
	References
5. Material cultures of warmth in England and Sweden during the long eighteenth century
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Creating warmth: technologies and fuels
	5.3 Heating spaces: public and private rooms
	5.4 Material cultures of warmth
	5.5 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
		Printed sources
		Literature
Part III: The spaces of energy: Room uses and their functional specialisation
6. The kitchen: An early modern power house? Antwerp, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Functional specialisation
	6.3 Sleeping in the kitchen?
	6.4 Conviviality
	6.5 Beyond cooking
	6.6 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7. Warmth for men: Kitchens and stables in peasant houses in Italy (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries)
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Peasant houses in agronomic literature
	7.3 Kitchens and stables in the peasant houses of central Italy
	7.4 Heating with animals: a controversial debate
	7.5 Conclusions
	References
		Literature
8. Energy usage in the kitchen: Heat and material culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch cookbooks
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Material culture, food and fuel in archaeology and history
	8.3 Culinary texts and cookbooks as a primary source
	8.4 The early modern Dutch domestic kitchen
	8.5 Cookbooks and fuel use
	8.6 Fuel use in the Dutch domestic kitchen
	8.7 Fuel types mentioned in cookbooks
	8.8 Culinary material culture mentioned in cookbooks
	8.9 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
9. Energy and the functional specialisation of domestic space in eighteenth-century Ghent and Leiden: The early modern home as an 'energyscape'
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 The early modern domestic power grid
	9.3 The kitchen as the power house of the home
	9.4 The spatial hybridity of domestic energy transitions
	9.5 Flexible energy systems at home
	9.6 Conclusion
	Notes
	Primary sources
		Unpublished sources
		References
Part IV: The social life of energy: Inequalities in material culture
10. 'Those closest to the fire enjoy the most of its glow': Inequality and energy in eighteenth-century Flanders
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Domestic energy in Flanders
	10.3 Reconstructing early modern domestic comfort
	10.4 The social differentiation of comfort
	10.5 The rise of unsustainable comforts
	10.6 Comfort and social change: some conclusions
	Notes
	References
Index