Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University. He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme and the Guggenheim Foundations as well as the Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (Cornell, 1974) (nominated for a National Book Award in 1975); Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Wayne State, 1989), and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (Oxford, 1995). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught at the University of East Anglia, University of Pittsburgh, and Cornell, and has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Gottingen, the Maison des Science de l'Homme, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the American Academy in Berlin, and the National Humanities Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include: Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1984); Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1998). He is co-editor with Simon Teuscher and Jon Mathieu of Kinship in Europe: Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) (Berghahn Books, 2007).

The study of kinship remains a lively concern among historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. One of the very attractive features of the volume is its crossdisciplinary representation from these fields but also from literature - [and] the mix of senior and junior scholars.A" * Mary Lindemann, Miami University The essays are of uniform excellence and interest, written by established scholars, including very well known scholars; the essays also make a remarkably coherent set - [and] are well focused - the research is valuable, offering original perspectives on a number of issues, from kinship reckoning to industrialization, to emotional history. This is a very useful, and widely cited companion to the previous volume on kinship in Europe, a great introduction to the current research.A" * William Reddy, Duke University

• List of Figures and Illustrations Preface Chapter 1. From Siblingship to Siblinghood: Kinship and the Shaping of European Society (1300-1900) Christopher H. Johnson and David Warren Sabean PART I: PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND SIBLING STRATEGIES (LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN) Chapter 2. Dowry: Sharing Inheritance or Exclusion? Timing, Destination, and Contents of Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Modern France Bernard Derouet Chapter 3. Maintenance Regulations and Sibling Relations in the High Nobility of Late Medieval Germany Karl-Heinz Spiess Chapter 4. Do Sisters have Brothers?Or the Search for the rechte SchwesterA":Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Michaela Hohkamp Chapter 5. Subordinates, Patrons, and Most Beloved: Sibling Relationships in Seventeenth-Century German Court Society Sophie Ruppel Chapter 6. The Crown Prince's Brothers and Sisters: Succession and Inheritance Problems and Solutions among the Hohenzollerns, from the Great Elector to Frederick the Great Benjamin Marschke Chapter 7. The Evolution within Sibling Groups from one Kinship System to Another (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) Gerard Delille PART II: SIBLING RELATIONS, CLOSE MARRIAGE, AND HORIZONTAL KINSHIP, 1750-1900 Chapter 8. Brother Trouble: Murder and Incest in Scottish Ballads Ruth Perry Chapter 9. Siblinghood and the Emotional Dimensions of the New Kinship System, 1800-1850: A French Example Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 10. Kinship and Issues of the Self in Europe around 1800 David Warren Sabean Chapter 11. Sisters, Wives, and the Sublimation of Desire in a Jewish-Protestant Friendship: The Letters of the Historian Johann Gustav Droysen and the Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Regina Schulte Chapter 12. Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family Mary Jean Corbett Chapter 13. Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Anne, William, and Helen Gladstone Leonore Davidoff Bibliography

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University. He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme and the Guggenheim Foundations as well as the Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (Cornell, 1974) (nominated for a National Book Award in 1975); Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Wayne State, 1989), and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (Oxford, 1995). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught at the University of East Anglia, University of Pittsburgh, and Cornell, and has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Gottingen, the Maison des Science de l'Homme, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the American Academy in Berlin, and the National Humanities Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include: Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1984); Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1998). He is co-editor with Simon Teuscher and Jon Mathieu of Kinship in Europe: Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) (Berghahn Books, 2007).

The study of kinship remains a lively concern among historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. One of the very attractive features of the volume is its crossdisciplinary representation from these fields but also from literature - [and] the mix of senior and junior scholars.A" * Mary Lindemann, Miami University The essays are of uniform excellence and interest, written by established scholars, including very well known scholars; the essays also make a remarkably coherent set - [and] are well focused - the research is valuable, offering original perspectives on a number of issues, from kinship reckoning to industrialization, to emotional history. This is a very useful, and widely cited companion to the previous volume on kinship in Europe, a great introduction to the current research.A" * William Reddy, Duke University

• List of Figures and Illustrations Preface Chapter 1. From Siblingship to Siblinghood: Kinship and the Shaping of European Society (1300-1900) Christopher H. Johnson and David Warren Sabean PART I: PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND SIBLING STRATEGIES (LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN) Chapter 2. Dowry: Sharing Inheritance or Exclusion? Timing, Destination, and Contents of Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Modern France Bernard Derouet Chapter 3. Maintenance Regulations and Sibling Relations in the High Nobility of Late Medieval Germany Karl-Heinz Spiess Chapter 4. Do Sisters have Brothers?Or the Search for the rechte SchwesterA":Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Michaela Hohkamp Chapter 5. Subordinates, Patrons, and Most Beloved: Sibling Relationships in Seventeenth-Century German Court Society Sophie Ruppel Chapter 6. The Crown Prince's Brothers and Sisters: Succession and Inheritance Problems and Solutions among the Hohenzollerns, from the Great Elector to Frederick the Great Benjamin Marschke Chapter 7. The Evolution within Sibling Groups from one Kinship System to Another (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) Gerard Delille PART II: SIBLING RELATIONS, CLOSE MARRIAGE, AND HORIZONTAL KINSHIP, 1750-1900 Chapter 8. Brother Trouble: Murder and Incest in Scottish Ballads Ruth Perry Chapter 9. Siblinghood and the Emotional Dimensions of the New Kinship System, 1800-1850: A French Example Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 10. Kinship and Issues of the Self in Europe around 1800 David Warren Sabean Chapter 11. Sisters, Wives, and the Sublimation of Desire in a Jewish-Protestant Friendship: The Letters of the Historian Johann Gustav Droysen and the Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Regina Schulte Chapter 12. Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family Mary Jean Corbett Chapter 13. Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Anne, William, and Helen Gladstone Leonore Davidoff Bibliography

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University. He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme and the Guggenheim Foundations as well as the Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (Cornell, 1974) (nominated for a National Book Award in 1975); Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Wayne State, 1989), and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (Oxford, 1995). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught at the University of East Anglia, University of Pittsburgh, and Cornell, and has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Gottingen, the Maison des Science de l'Homme, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the American Academy in Berlin, and the National Humanities Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include: Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1984); Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1998). He is co-editor with Simon Teuscher and Jon Mathieu of Kinship in Europe: Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) (Berghahn Books, 2007).

The study of kinship remains a lively concern among historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. One of the very attractive features of the volume is its crossdisciplinary representation from these fields but also from literature - [and] the mix of senior and junior scholars.A" * Mary Lindemann, Miami University The essays are of uniform excellence and interest, written by established scholars, including very well known scholars; the essays also make a remarkably coherent set - [and] are well focused - the research is valuable, offering original perspectives on a number of issues, from kinship reckoning to industrialization, to emotional history. This is a very useful, and widely cited companion to the previous volume on kinship in Europe, a great introduction to the current research.A" * William Reddy, Duke University

• List of Figures and Illustrations Preface Chapter 1. From Siblingship to Siblinghood: Kinship and the Shaping of European Society (1300-1900) Christopher H. Johnson and David Warren Sabean PART I: PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND SIBLING STRATEGIES (LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN) Chapter 2. Dowry: Sharing Inheritance or Exclusion? Timing, Destination, and Contents of Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Modern France Bernard Derouet Chapter 3. Maintenance Regulations and Sibling Relations in the High Nobility of Late Medieval Germany Karl-Heinz Spiess Chapter 4. Do Sisters have Brothers?Or the Search for the rechte SchwesterA":Brothers and Sisters in Aristocratic Society at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Michaela Hohkamp Chapter 5. Subordinates, Patrons, and Most Beloved: Sibling Relationships in Seventeenth-Century German Court Society Sophie Ruppel Chapter 6. The Crown Prince's Brothers and Sisters: Succession and Inheritance Problems and Solutions among the Hohenzollerns, from the Great Elector to Frederick the Great Benjamin Marschke Chapter 7. The Evolution within Sibling Groups from one Kinship System to Another (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) Gerard Delille PART II: SIBLING RELATIONS, CLOSE MARRIAGE, AND HORIZONTAL KINSHIP, 1750-1900 Chapter 8. Brother Trouble: Murder and Incest in Scottish Ballads Ruth Perry Chapter 9. Siblinghood and the Emotional Dimensions of the New Kinship System, 1800-1850: A French Example Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 10. Kinship and Issues of the Self in Europe around 1800 David Warren Sabean Chapter 11. Sisters, Wives, and the Sublimation of Desire in a Jewish-Protestant Friendship: The Letters of the Historian Johann Gustav Droysen and the Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Regina Schulte Chapter 12. Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family Mary Jean Corbett Chapter 13. Gender and Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Anne, William, and Helen Gladstone Leonore Davidoff Bibliography