12 Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data – The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Note on Terminology xi
6. Contributors xii
7. Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe 1
8. 1 The Employment of Servants in Fifteenthand Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges 19
9. 2 The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective 37
10. 3 A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500–1660 57
11. 4 Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550–1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered 77
12. 5 Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670–1730 95
13. 6 Servants in Rural Norway c.1650–1800 113
14. 7 Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North-Western Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside 131
15. 8 Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700–1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries 149
16. 9 The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience 167
17. 10 Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire 183
18. 11 Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class 203
19. 12 Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data – The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries) 227
20. Select Bibliography 255
21. Index 268