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Energy in the early modern home : material cultures of domestic energy consumption in Europe, 1450-1850 / edited by Wout Saelens, Bruno Blondé, Wouter Ryckbosch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Themes in environmental history (Routledge (Firm))
- Themes in environmental history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dwellings--Heating and ventilation--Europe--History.
- Dwellings.
- Energy consumption--Europe--History.
- Energy consumption.
- Material culture--Europe.
- Material culture.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Wout Saelens (1993) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has a broad interest in the urban history of social inequality, material culture and ecological development from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Bruno Blonď (1964) is a full professor of the history department at the University of Antwerp. His major research interests include the history of economic growth and social inequality, urbanisation, and material culture and consumption in the early modern Low Countries. Wouter Ryckbosch (1984) is associate professor in urban history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is also the director of the research group HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes). His primary research interests are the history of inequality and social relations and the application of techniques from digital humanities to history.
- Contents:
- Energy in the early modern home / Wout Saelens, Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckbosch
- Continuity and change in the search for domestic warmth : material culture, fuels, practices (France, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Olivier Jandot
- A flaming Renaissance. The material culture of staying warm in the Venetian artisan's home (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Stefania Montemezzo
- Between home and manufacturing. The use of wood and charcoal in early modern Northern Italy : two case studies / Luca Mocarelli, Giulio Ongaro and Paolo Tedeschi
- Fireplaces and stoves as icons of comfort / John E. Crowley
- Material cultures of warmth in England and Sweden during the long eighteenth century / Johanna Ilmakunnas and Jon Stobart
- The kitchen : an early modern power house? Antwerp, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / Bruno Blondé and Julie De Groot
- Warmth for men : kitchens and stables in peasant houses in Italy (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) / Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro
- Energy usage in the kitchen : heat and material culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch cookbooks / Merit Hondelink
- Energy and the functional specialisation of domestic space in eighteenth-century Ghent and Leiden : the early modern home as an 'energyscape' / Wout Saelens
- 'Those closest to the fire enjoy the most of its glow'. Inequality and energy in eighteenth century Flanders / Wouter Ryckbosch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Energy in the early modern home
- ISBN:
- 9781003134398
- 1003134394
- 9781000920116
- 1000920119
- 9781000920109
- 1000920100
- Publisher Number:
- 40031852229
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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