From obligation to agreement: concepts of servitude in early modern England

One very popular genre of literature during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was advice (or prescriptive) literature, directed at husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants. These books provided readers with detailed descriptions of the ideal relationships between fami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marple, Laura Reiko Simeon
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5419