The Art of Survival Gender and History in Europe, 1450 2000 Essays in Honour of Olwen Hufton
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Past and Present Supplements, New Series Volume 1, 2006 The Art of Survival: Gender and History in Europe, 1450 2000 Essays in Honour of Olwen Hufton Edited by Ruth Harris and
The Art of Survival Gender and History in Europe, 1450 2000 CONTENTS Acknowledgements, i Introduction, 1 Ruth Harris and Gender and Material Culture His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Household Accounting in Eighteenth-Century England, 12 Amanda Vickery Gender and Welfare in Modern Europe, 39 Jane Lewis Objects and the Culture of Emotions Rooms to Share: Convent Cells and Social Relations in Early Modern Italy, 55 Silvia Evangelisti Concubinage and the Church in Early Modern Münster, 72 Simone Laqua Religious Legacies, Friendship and Politics A Confessor and His Spiritual Child: François de Sales, Jeanne de Chantal, and the Foundation of the Order of the Visitation, 101 Ruth Manning Letters to Lucie: Spirituality, Friendship, and Politics During the Dreyfus Affair, 118 Ruth Harris Trauma, Loss and Survival Witchcraft, Nostalgia, and the Rural Idyll in Eighteenth-Century Germany, 139 The Religious Sense in a Post-War Secular Age, 159 Alex Owen Generations and History Olwen Hufton s Poor, Richard Cobb s People, and the Notions of the longue durée in French Revolutionary Historiography, 178 Colin Jones
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