Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Note on Terminology
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe
- 1 The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges
- 2 The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective
- 3 A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500–1660
- 4 Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550–1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered
- 5 Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670–1730
- 6 Servants in Rural Norway c.1650–1800
- 7 Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North- Western Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside
- 8 Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700–1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries
- 9 The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience
- 10 Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire
- 11 Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class
- 12 Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data – The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Note on Terminology
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe
- 1 The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges
- 2 The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective
- 3 A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500–1660
- 4 Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550–1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered
- 5 Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670–1730
- 6 Servants in Rural Norway c.1650–1800
- 7 Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North- Western Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside
- 8 Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700–1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries
- 9 The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience
- 10 Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire
- 11 Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class
- 12 Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data – The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
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- Servants in Rural Europe1400–1900, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017