Sibling relations in family history: conflicts, co-operation and gender roles in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. An introduction

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 1. Kertzer and Barbagli, The History of the European Family, 3 Vols.

 2. Pollock, “Parent-Child Relations,” in Family Life in Early Modern Times, 1500–1789. The History of the European Family, Vol. 1.

 3. Kertzer and Barbagli, Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789–1913. History of the European Family, Vol. 2.

 4. Thirsk, “Younger Sons in the Seventeenth Century,” History 54, no. 182 (1969).

 5. Pollock, “Younger sons in Tudor and Stuart England” in History Today 39, no. 6 (1989).

 6. Continuity and Change 7, no. 3 (1992), ed. by Richard Wall and Lloyd Bonfield. The title of the conference was ‘Place et function des cadets dans les structures familiales en Europe’.

 7. Quaderni Storici 83, no. 2 (1993), Dossier “Fratello/Sorelle”, ed. Angiolina Arru and Sofia Boesch Gajano; Quaderni Storici 87, no. 3 (1994), Dossier “Fratelli e sorelle”.

 8. The analysis of marriage as a family strategy was at the centre of two contributions. The case of rural Catalonia, already present in the Continuity and Change special issue, was expanded back in time by Llorenç Ferrer i Alos, who analysed the consequences that the Catalonian inheritance system had over male children and daughter destinies. Gérard Delille and Antonio Ciuffreda's essay underlined that noble and non-nobles siblings in the kingdom of Naples followed a different marriage pattern: marriage of the primogenitors and progressive celibacy of younger sons among nobles while non-nobles continued to initiate their primogenitors into an ecclesiastical career and young siblings got married. This change, the authors argued, constituted one of the elements of the radical social fracture between the orders in the seventeenth century as marriage exchanges between orders were interrupted. For her part, Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux's study of French pre-industrial ménages in the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century emphasised the existence of fraternal co-residency over long and short periods in rural as well as in urban contexts and the importance of sibling co-operation and solidarity as part of the family strategy.

 9. Davidoff, “Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis,” in Worlds Between. Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class.

10. Crawford, “Sibling Relations,” in Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England.

11. Froide, “Single but Not Alone,” in Never Married. Singlewomen in Early Modern England.

12. Miller and Yavneh, eds., Sibling Relations and Gender in Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others.

13. Cavallo, “La importanza della ‘famiglia orizzontale’ nella storia della famiglia italiana,” in Generazioni: Legami di parentela tra passato e presente.

14. Cavallo, Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy. Identities, Families and Masculinities.

15. Cavallo, “Le emancipazioni. Una fonte per lo studio dei rapporti famigliari intra e inter-generazionali,” in Familia e poteri in Italia tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna (XIV–XVII Secoli).

16. Sabean, Teuscher, and Mathieu, eds., Kinship in Europe. Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300–1900).

17. Sabean, Kinship in Europe, 6.

18. Ago and Borello, eds., Famiglie. Circolazione di beni, circuiti di affetti in Età Moderna.

19. Bastress-Dukehart, “Sibling Conflict within Early Modern German Noble Families,” Journal of Family History 33, no. 1 (2008).

20. Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400–1700.

21. Steiner, Antigones: How the Antigone Legend has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought.