Academic Households in Early Modern Northern Europe [Hardcover]

1. Academic Households and Families in Early Modern Northern Europe: An Introduction? Part 1: Family Ideals and Practices? 2. Dissertations on Family and Marriage in the Seventeenth-Century Swedish Realm? 3. Martin Luthers Emotional Practices and Family Life in the Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg? 4. The Multifaceted Agency of Professors Wives in the Seventeenth-Century Turku? 5. The Agency of Lecturers Widows in the Late Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Vyborg? Part 2: Family Networks? 6. Transfer and Management of Property in Marburg Professors Families in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries? 7. Family Networks of Scholarly Households in Turku during the turn of the Eighteenth-Century? 8. Godparenthood in Professorial Households in the Eighteenth-Century Uppsala? Part 3: Written and Material Self-Fashioning? 9. Representing Family Relations through Occasional Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Turku? 10. Identity and Materiality in the Linnaeus Household in the Eighteenth-Century Uppsala? 11. Objectified Cultural Capital and Self-fashioning in the Ekerman-Aurivillius Professorial Dynasty in Uppsala during the turn of the Nineteenth-Century

This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth to eighteenth century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender.

During the Middle Ages, Christian scholars were expected to spend their lives unwed and instead focus on educating the young. However, a gradual easing of prohibitions against the marriage of scholars began in different areas of Europe in the late fourteenth century. By the end of the sixteenth century, a great number of professors were men with families and establishing their own households. This was especially the case in the German-speaking Protestant areas of Europe and the Swedish realm from the first half of the seventeenth century. The contributors of this volume cl£.