Hysterical Behaviour in Patriarchal Communities

1988 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 687-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm P. I. Weller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

The aspirations, mores, and family structure in Cypriot immigrants, which are illustrated in four cases of hysterical behaviour, have many similarities to nineteenth century Viennese society. Such behaviour may mask more sinister diagnoses; one of the cases remains diagnostically uncertain and another passed through a transient hysterical psychosis with Ganser-like symptoms. The cultural, dynamic, and nosological issues are discussed.

English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Nineteenth-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-242
Author(s):  
Isabelle Richet
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

This paper discusses the symbiotic relationship that developed between English-language periodicals published in Italy and major reading rooms in Rome and Florence. This relationship took various configurations – from Luigi Piale in Rome, who opened a reading room and published the weekly The Roman Advertiser, to the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence that provided access to the many English-language periodicals published in Italy – and created important spaces of transnational cultural interaction. The paper looks at the cultural practices and the forms of sociability represented by the reading of periodicals and the patronizing of reading rooms as ‘imported traditions’ brought to Italy by the many British cultured travellers and residents in the nineteenth century. It identifies the actors who promoted these cultural practices (editors, librarians, cosmopolitan intellectuals) and analyses their role as mediating figures who created in-between spaces where cross-cultural exchanges unfolded. The paper also discusses the broader transnational cultural dynamic at work as those cultural practices imported from England favoured a greater engagement of British visitors and expatriates with the Italian political and cultural environment.

Power and Control over Women in Victorian England: Male Opposition to Sacramental Confession in the Anglican Church

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Kollar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
And Control

ABSTRACTThe patriarchal environment of nineteenth century England viewed women as weak and naïve creatures who should submit to the dictates of men. Religion, however, could give women a sense of freedom and independence from male authority. When auricular confession began to gain acceptance in some sections of the Anglican Church, women saw this as a way of asserting their independence because they could confide their personal thoughts and problems to a clergymen. This could, in the opinion of some, threaten the powerful role of the husband or father by substituting an alternative patriarchal system, and many critics warned of the dangers associated with the confessional, especially the weakening of the male dominated family structure. The Priest in Absolution gave advice to Anglican confessors, but the sexual nature of the questions, made public in 1877, shocked the public and confirmed the fears of the opponents of auricular confession.

Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire

1976 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
D. J. Jeremy ◽  
Michael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure

Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire

1973 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 1062
Author(s):  
Tamara K. Hareven ◽  
Michael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure

Family Structure and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Europe

1955 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Habakkuk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Social

The scholars of continental Europe have devoted much attention to the social consequences of rules and customs of inheritance, and there exists a large body of work on this subject by lawyers and agricultural historians. The purpose of this paper is to consider, in the light of this European evidence, the possible significance of such rules and customs for economic development in the nineteenth century.

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