HIST 2506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Early Modern Europe, Knitting, Menopause
18 Feb 2017
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Lecture 1: early modern europe & the revolution. Meat for wealthy, nobody ate many vegetables. Fears of fruit, water: people drank too much beer no clean water supply. Colonial influence: sugar b/c of colonial expansion, tea & coffee, potatoes. Poor people had rich, whole wheat bread usually more healthy. Life was provincial revolved around house, family, land, village. Birth & infancy: survival hardest to survive, age-specific tasks (as opposed to sex-specific tasks) Children age of 5 doing small tasks in the field/home. No sense of children being different mini adults. Adolescence (age 14: stay at home or out to work depending on what"s available for the children to do & how many children they had, girls to work, boys to apprenticeship *more sex-specific tasks. Increasingly common to send one daughter away and keep one at home: might send one son away to learn a trade.
