Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Illustrations viii
4. Preface x
5. Introduction. From Siblingship to Siblinghood: Kinship and the Shaping of European Society (1300–1900) 1
6. PART ONE. PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND SIBLING STRATEGIES (LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN)
7. Chapter 1 Dowry: Sharing Inheritance or Exclusion? Timing, Destination, and Contents of Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Modern France 31
8. Chapter 2 Maintenance Regulations and Sibling Relations in the High Nobility of Late Medieval Germany 47
9. Chapter 3 Do Sisters Have Brothers? The Search for the “rechte Schwester” Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century 65
10. Chapter 4 Subordinates, Patrons, and Most Beloved: Sibling Relationships in Seventeenth-Century German Court Society 85
11. Chapter 5 The Crown Prince’s Brothers and Sisters: Succession and Inheritance Problems and Solutions among the Hohenzollerns, from the Great Elector to Frederick the Great 111
12. Chapter 6 Evolution within Sibling Groups from One Kinship System to Another (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) 145
13. PART TWO. SIBLING RELATIONS, CLOSE MARRIAGE, AND HORIZONTAL KINSHIP, 1750–1900
14. Chapter 7 Brother Trouble: Murder and Incest in Scottish Ballads 167
15. Chapter 8 Siblinghood and the Emotional Dimensions of the New Kinship System, 1800–1850: A French Example 189
16. Chapter 9 Kinship and Issues of the Self in Europe around 1800 221
17. Chapter 10 Sisters, Wives, and the Sublimation of Desire in a Jewish-Protestant Friendship: The Letters of the Historian Johann Gustav Droysen and the Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 239
18. Chapter 11 Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family 263
19. Chapter 12 Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case Of Anne, William, and Helen Gladstone 289
20. Notes on Contributors 323
21. Bibliography 329
22. Index 351