Servants in Rural Europe

JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter. Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe. JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter. Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. THIJS LAMBRECHT is Lecturer in Rural History at the University of Ghent.

• Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe - Jane WhittleThe Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case-Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges - Lies VervaetThe Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective - Thijs LambrechtA Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500-1660 - Jane WhittleFemale Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550-1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered - Charmian MansellLife-cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c. 1670-1730 - Christina PrytzServants in Rural Norway, c.1650-1800 - Hanne OsthusRural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, Northwestern Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside - Christine FertigRural Servants in Eastern France 1700-1872: Change and Continuity over Two Centuries - Jeremy HayhoeThe Servant Institution during the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience - Carolina UppenbergFarm service and hiring practices in mid nineteenth-century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire - Sarah HollandDutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class - Richard PapingRural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries) - Raffaella SartiSelect Bibliography

Linked by common themes and rigorous methodologies, the chapters of Servants in Rural Europe: 1400-1900 also constitute independent studies, each amply documented and illustrated by graphs, tables, and microhistories that will constitute an indispensable mine of data and ideas for specialists.