Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Europe

My Hellsing is a researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden, focusing on the history of European courts, gender and material culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In 2015, her doctoral thesis was published as a monograph as Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, hertiginna vid det gustavianska hovet. Since then, she has continued publishing on the political sociability of the elites during the Age of Revolution. She is currently working on the archival practice of the royal court from the nineteenth century to the present.Johanna Ilmakunnas is a professor of Nordic History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research interests span from the cultural history of work, lifestyle, consumption and material culture to microhistory, family and gender in eighteenth-century Europe, especially in Sweden. Her recent publications include Flitiga och sysslolösa: Essäer om 1700-talets Europa (2024). Other topics of recent publications include commercial credit and elites, comfort in Swedish country houses, diary-writing practices of eighteenth-century nobility and material and emotional cultures of death in eighteenth-century Sweden and Finland.

• List of FiguresList of Contributors1. Shopping in European Towns: A Prism of Everyday Life– My Hellsing & Johanna Ilmakunnas2. Visiting a Backwater? Consumer Attractions, Shopping Experiences and the Enlightened ‘Tourist Gaze’ in the Low Countries (c.1715–c.1840)– Ilja Van Damme & Gerrit Verhoeven3. Courtly Needs and Commercial Instincts: Shopping in Provincial Germany in the Eighteenth Century– Anne Sophie Overkamp4. Expense, Obligation, Extravagance: Aristocrats and Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Paris– Natacha Coquery5. Shopping and Widowhood at Court: The Case of three French Ladies-in-Waiting at the End of the Eighteenth Century– Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste6. Shopping, Life-Stage and Hierarchy: Practices and Experiences of a Household in mid-Eighteenth-Century Stockholm– Johanna Ilmakunnas7. Interior Décor and Neutrality Politics in a Time of War: Charlotte Schimmelmann’s Redecorations of Schimmelmann House in Copenhagen, 1789 and 1806– Kristine Dyrmann8. Make, Mend, Alter, Share: Shopping Practices of a Swedish Royal Household from the 1780s to the 1800s– My Hellsing9. A Performative Act of Shopping: Identity and Self-Image amongst Actors and Actresses in Stockholm, c.1760–1840– Marie Steinrud10. Hidden Shopping in the Public Space: Deciphering a Theft and a Shopping Episode in Eighteenth-Century Finland– Panu Savolainen11. The Haircare Market in Stockholm, 1770–1850: Hair Fashion and Opportunities for Choice– Leif RunefeltSelect BibliographyIndex