Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Note on Terminology
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe
• 1. The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of
• 2. The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective
• 3. A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500–1660
• 4. Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550–1650: The Labour Laws Recon
• 5. Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670–1730
• 6. Servants in Rural Norway c.1650–1800
• 7. Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North- Western Germany: Households, Families a
• 8. Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700–1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries
• 9. The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservi
• 10. Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the
• 11. Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Servic
• 12. Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data – The Italian
• Select Bibliography
• Index