Energy in the Early Modern Home : Material Cultures of Domestic Energy Consumption in Europe, 1450-1850

Energy in the Early Modern Home : Material Cultures of Domestic Energy Consumption in Europe, 1450-1850 edited by Wout Saelens, Bruno Blondé, Wouter Ryckbosch - London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. ©2024. - 1 online resource (261 pages) - Themes in environmental history . - Themes in Environmental History Series .

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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Energy in the early modern home -- Notes -- References -- Part I: The materiality of energy: Fuels, technologies and practices -- 1. Continuity and change in the search for domestic warmth: Material culture, fuels and practices (France, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The use of the fireplace: aspects and problems -- 1.3 'Search for warmth' rather than 'home heating' -- 1.4 The fundamental problem of access to energy -- 1.5 The subtle hierarchy of fuels -- 1.6 The mechanics of change -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. A Warm Renaissance: Material culture and heating techniques in Venetian artisans' homes (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Sources -- 2.2 Living with limited resources: society, economy and architecture -- 2.2.1 Social status and economic means -- 2.2.2 Popular housing -- 2.3 Producing and preserving heat -- 2.3.1 Producing energy -- 2.3.2 Producing and using heat -- 2.4 Energy-saving techniques and tricks -- 2.4.1 Maintaining warmth -- 2.4.2 Preserving body warmth: layering clothing -- 2.4.3 Recipes for keeping warm: the books of secrets -- 2.5 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3. Between home and manufacturing. The use of wood and charcoal in early modern Northern Italy: Two case studies -- 3.1 Introduction: aims, topic and methodology -- 3.2 Notes on wood consumption in Bologna and Milan during the eighteenth century: the context -- 3.3 What affected wood prices? -- 3.4 Notes about wood and charcoal consumption in the valleys of Eastern Lombardy -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Part II: The cultural life of energy: Comfort, consumer culture and domesticity -- 4. Fireplaces and stoves as icons of comfort -- References. 5. Material cultures of warmth in England and Sweden during the long eighteenth century -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Creating warmth: technologies and fuels -- 5.3 Heating spaces: public and private rooms -- 5.4 Material cultures of warmth -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Printed sources -- Literature -- Part III: The spaces of energy: Room uses and their functional specialisation -- 6. The kitchen: An early modern power house? Antwerp, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Functional specialisation -- 6.3 Sleeping in the kitchen? -- 6.4 Conviviality -- 6.5 Beyond cooking -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. Warmth for men: Kitchens and stables in peasant houses in Italy (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Peasant houses in agronomic literature -- 7.3 Kitchens and stables in the peasant houses of central Italy -- 7.4 Heating with animals: a controversial debate -- 7.5 Conclusions -- References -- Literature -- 8. Energy usage in the kitchen: Heat and material culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch cookbooks -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Material culture, food and fuel in archaeology and history -- 8.3 Culinary texts and cookbooks as a primary source -- 8.4 The early modern Dutch domestic kitchen -- 8.5 Cookbooks and fuel use -- 8.6 Fuel use in the Dutch domestic kitchen -- 8.7 Fuel types mentioned in cookbooks -- 8.8 Culinary material culture mentioned in cookbooks -- 8.9 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9. Energy and the functional specialisation of domestic space in eighteenth-century Ghent and Leiden: The early modern home as an 'energyscape' -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The early modern domestic power grid -- 9.3 The kitchen as the power house of the home -- 9.4 The spatial hybridity of domestic energy transitions -- 9.5 Flexible energy systems at home -- 9.6 Conclusion. Notes -- Primary sources -- Unpublished sources -- References -- Part IV: The social life of energy: Inequalities in material culture -- 10. 'Those closest to the fire enjoy the most of its glow': Inequality and energy in eighteenth-century Flanders -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Domestic energy in Flanders -- 10.3 Reconstructing early modern domestic comfort -- 10.4 The social differentiation of comfort -- 10.5 The rise of unsustainable comforts -- 10.6 Comfort and social change: some conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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