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Servants in Rural Europe: 1400-1900 (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History Book 11) by Jane Whittle; Raffaella Sarti; Richard Paping; Sarah Holland; Thijs Lambrecht; Carolina Uppenberg; Charmian Mansell; Christina Prytz; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Fertig; Hanne Osthus; Jane Whittle; Jeremy Hayhoe; Lies Vervaet is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before marriage. Servants tended to be employed for long periods, several months to years at a time, and were paid with food and lodging as well as cash wages. Both women and men worked as servants in large numbers. Unlike domestic servants in towns and wealthy households, rural servants typically worked on farms and were an important element of the agricultural workforce. Historians have viewed service as a distinct life-cycle stage between childhood and marriage. It brought both freedom and servility for young people. It allowed them to leave home and earn a living before marriage, whilst learning a range of agricultural and craft skills which reduced their dependence on their parents and increased their choice in marriage partners. Still, servants had limited rights: t

Author

Jane Whittle; Raffaella Sarti; Richard Paping; Sarah Holland; Thijs Lambrecht; Carolina Uppenberg; Charmian Mansell; Christina Prytz; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Fertig; Hanne Osthus; Jane Whittle; Jeremy Hayhoe; Lies Vervaet

Publisher

The Boydell Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787441316

Subjects

Western, History, Management