Download or read book Women and Work in Eighteenth Century France written by Daryl M. Hafter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal how women at all levels of society negotiated these structures with determination and ingenuity in order to provide for themselves and their families. Recent historiography on women and work in eighteenth-century France has focused on the model of the "family economy," in which women's work existed as part of the communal effort to keep the family afloat, usually in support of the patriarch's occupation. The ten essays in this volume offer case studies that complicate the conventional model: wives of ship captains managed family businesses in their husbands' extended absences; high-end prostitutes managed their own households; female weavers, tailors, and merchants increasingly appeared on eighteenth-century tax rolls and guild membership lists; and female members of the nobility possessed and wielded the same legal power as their male counterparts. Examining female workers within and outside of the context of family, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France challenges current scholarly assumptions about gender and labor. This stimulating and important collection of essays broadens our understanding of the diversity, vitality, and crucial importance of women's work in the eighteenth-century economy.

Download or read book The Politics of Fiscal Privilege in Provence 1530s 1830s written by Rafe Blaufarb and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafe Blaufarb examines the interwoven problems of taxation and social privilege in this treatment of the contention over fiscal privilege between the seigneurial nobility and the tax-payers of Provence

Download or read book Gender Law and Economic Well Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century written by Anna Bellavitis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women. This volume is divided into three parts. The first, Laws, presents general outlines related to some European regions; the second, Family strategies or marital economies?, questions the potential conflict between the economic interests of the married couple and those of the lineage within the nobility; finally, the third part of the book, Inside the urban economy, focuses on economic and work activities of middle and lower classes in the urban environment. The assorted and rich panorama offered by the history of the legislation on women’s economic rights shows that similarities and differences run through Europe in such a way that the North/South model looks very stereotyped. While this approach calls into question classical geographical and cultural maps and well-established chronologies, it encourages a reconsideration of European history according to a cross-boundaries perspective. By drawing on a wide range of social, economic and cultural European contexts, from the late medieval to early modern age to the nineteenth century, and including the middle and lower classes (especially artisans, merchants and traders) as well as the economic practices and norms of the upper middle class and aristocracy, this book will be of interest to economic and social historians, sociologists of health, gender and sexuality, and economists.

Download or read book The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe written by Joachim Eibach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective. The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe contains a variety of approaches from different regions that each pose a challenge to commonplace views such as the emergence of confessional cultures, of private life, and of separate spheres of men and women. By analyzing a plethora of manifold sources including diaries, court records, paintings and domestic advice literature, this volume provides an overview of the domestic sphere as a location of work and consumption, conflict and cooperation, emotions and intimacy, and devotion and education. The book sheds light on changing relations between spouses, parents and children, masters and servants or apprentices, and humans and animals or plants, thereby exceeding the notion of the modern nuclear family. This volume will be of great use to upper-level graduates, postgraduates and experienced scholars interested in the history of family, household, social space, gender, emotions, material culture, work and private life in early modern and nineteenth-century Europe.

Download or read book Les r gimes matrimoniaux en Provence la fin de l Ancien R gime written by Jean-Philippe Agresti and published by Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si la question des régimes matrimoniaux avant la promulgation du Code civil et l’instauration d’un régime légal de communauté a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux, pour la Provence, au xviiie siècle, aucune étude n’a traité de la question. Une recherche sur les régimes matrimoniaux en Provence à la fin de l’Ancien Régime se justifiait comme étant une contribution à une meilleure connaissance de l’histoire du droit privé des anciens pays de droit écrit. Néanmoins, il convenait de donner à un sujet classique pour les historiens du droit une dynamique nouvelle permettant d’appréhender le droit patrimonial de la famille provençale. Cette approche a été trouvée dans la détermination de notre problématique et dans le choix et l’utilisation de nos sources. La plupart des études sur les régimes matrimoniaux en pays de droit écrit ont comme source principale et parfois unique le contrat de mariage notarié. Or, bien que le contrat soit une source essentielle pour une recherche en histoire sociale ou en histoire du droit, il n’est pas la seule source car des époux provençaux de toutes origines sociales se mariaient, à la fin de l’Ancien Régime, sans contrat. Les consultations, factums plaidoyers d’avocats s’imposaient alors comme un moyen efficace de comprendre les fondements juridiques des relations pécuniaires entre époux. Du côté de la pratique notariale, les recherches devaient porter sur l’ensemble des actes dans lesquels intervenaient des gens mariés pour analyser les clauses qu’ils passaient et pour connaître la manière dont ils mettaient en place et utilisaient leur régime matrimonial. Cette analyse a permis de retrouver les règles telles qu’elles étaient vécues pour rechercher leurs finalités juridiques, sociales et économiques. Parallèlement, une recherche de la jurisprudence du Parlement de Provence relative aux régimes matrimoniaux à travers les ouvrages des jurisconsultes locaux s’est imposée. La confrontation de ces sources montre que les jurisconsultes – avocats et/ou arrêtistes – et les notaires manient la dotalité et la paraphernalité avec habileté et bon sens. La normalisation des formules notariales et l’unité de la pratique sont à relever. Au-delà des particularismes locaux, la Provence présente une unité de la pratique conforme à celle que les jurisconsultes provençaux voulaient donner aux règles applicables aux régimes matrimoniaux. Les pratiques à tendance communautaire étaient peu nombreuses. Le contrat de mariage ne joue plus totalement son rôle de charte de famille et s’est recentré sur le régime dotal. La vie des régimes matrimoniaux montre bien que la dichotomie entre les patrimoines des époux est strictement maintenue. L’épouse administrait ses biens propres. Ses biens étaient protégés, même par le juge. La Provence présentait au xviiie siècle un corpus complet et original de règles qui se substituait à un régime légal mis en place par une coutume dans d’autres lieux. Les régimes matrimoniaux provençaux forment un tout cohérent reposant sur une séparation de biens de principe calquée sur un modèle romain triomphant. Le régime dotal, régime séparatiste par excellence, a la faveur des jurisconsultes et sert de modèle : il reste le référent. Les juristes provençaux utilisaient le vocabulaire inhérent au régime dotal romain, même lorsque aucune dot n’avait été constituée, faute de contrat. Ils nommaient paraphernaux l’ensemble des biens propres de l’épouse, alors que pour qu’il y ait des biens en dehors de la dot, il faut, par définition, qu’il y ait des biens dotaux. Enfin, les régimes matrimoniaux en Provence au xviiie siècle ne consacraient pas l’égalité entre époux mais assuraient une certaine forme d’équilibre des pouvoirs, par une conception particulière de la puissance maritale, remise en cause par le Code civil de 1804.

Download or read book Kinship in Europe written by David Warren Sabean and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Philippe Ariès' book, 'Centuries of Childhood', there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. The essays in this text explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the 18th century.

Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112004471568 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basil of Caesarea Christian Humanist Ascetic written by Paul Jonathan Fedwick and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1981 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a symposium held in Toronto, June 10-16, 1979.

Download or read book Monographic Series written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of the Middle Ages written by Joseph Reese Strayer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically, this volume contains articles on various aspects of life in the Middle Ages, from A.D. 500 to 1500 and covering a geographic area including the Latin West, the Slavic world, Asia Minor, the lands of the caliphate in the East, and the Muslim-Christian areas of North Africa.

Download or read book Sources of Social History written by Paolo Brezzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History written by Heikki Pihlajamäki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.

Download or read book Women in Western European History From antiquity to the French Revolution written by Linda Frey and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania written by Linda Paterson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Occitania, a geographical and linguistic area often referred to as 'the South of France', 'the South', 'the Midi', or more loosely 'Provence', was politically diverse but culturally coherent. It was here that the troubadours created Courtly Love and a new poetic language, which together were to affect the whole course of European literature and sensibilities. The essays made readily accessible in this collection reflect the author's many-sided interests in the troubadours and the society from which they sprang: the historical and cultural place of the women forming the ostensible objects of their desire, veneration, or anxieties; the extent to which French notions of chivalry penetrated the South; the nature and meaning of various elements of court culture; the precocious development of medical science in this region; its complex responses to the Crusades; and the question of Occitan identity. Mostly complementing her major publications (The World of the Troubadours, collaborative editions of the songs of the troubadour Marcabru, of the epic fragment the Canso d'Antioca, and of the medieval Occitan tensos and partimens), they provide either more detailed material than found its way into those works, or developments from them. 'Occitan literature and the Holy Land' anticipates a new project on responses to the Crusades in Occitan and Old French lyrics.

Download or read book Paradise News written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

Download or read book The Social Meaning of Money written by Viviana A. Zelizer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.