Efnisyfirlit

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Note on Terminology
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe: Jane Whittle
• 1. The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges: Lies Vervaet
• 2. The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective: Thijs Lambrecht
• 3. A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500–1660: Jane Whittle
• 4. Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550–1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered: Charmian Mansell
• 5. Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670–1730: Cristina Prytz
• 6. Servants in Rural Norway c.1650–1800: Hanne Østhus
• 7. Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North-Western Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside: Christine Fertig
• 8. Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700–1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries: Jeremy Hayhoe
• 9. The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience: Carolina Uppenberg
• 10. Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire: Sarah Holland
• 11. Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class: Richard Paping
• 12. Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data – The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries): Raffaella Sarti
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright