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    Everyday life in 16th-18th century Europe saw significant population growth and changes. The population doubled between 1500-1750 due to higher fertility and lower mortality rates. While life expectancy was only 25 years in 1700 and 35 years in 1800, new crops like potatoes and better agriculture led to more food. However, diets and sanitation were still poor, and diseases like the bubonic plague remained issues. Family structures were typically nuclear or extended, with late marriage, illegitimacy rising in the 18th century, and children working from a young age. Women's lives centered around the household and child rearing, and they faced oppression.

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    Everyday life in 16th-18th century Europe saw significant population growth and changes. The population doubled between 1500-1750 due to higher fertility and lower mortality rates. While life expectancy was only 25 years in 1700 and 35 years in 1800, new crops like potatoes and better agriculture led to more food. However, diets and sanitation were still poor, and diseases like the bubonic plague remained issues. Family structures were typically nuclear or extended, with late marriage, illegitimacy rising in the 18th century, and children working from a young age. Women's lives centered around the household and child rearing, and they faced oppression.

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    Everyday Life in The 16, 17 and 18 C.: TH TH TH

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    Everyday life in 16th-18th century Europe saw significant population growth and changes. The population doubled between 1500-1750 due to higher fertility and lower mortality rates. While life expectancy was only 25 years in 1700 and 35 years in 1800, new crops like potatoes and better agriculture led to more food. However, diets and sanitation were still poor, and diseases like the bubonic plague remained issues. Family structures were typically nuclear or extended, with late marriage, illegitimacy rising in the 18th century, and children working from a young age. Women's lives centered around the household and child rearing, and they faced oppression.

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    Everyday Life in the 16th , 17th

    and 18 c.th

    Part 1
    Bruegel the Younger Peasants warming themselves beside the hearth,
    (17th century)
    Vermeer The Love Letter (17th c)
    Nicolas Largillière Portrait of Louis XIV and his family (1714)
    Population
    • Between 1500 and 1750 the European
    population doubled from about 65 million
    to around 127.5 million
    • High Fertility rates and mortality rates
    • 1700: Life expectancy 25 years 1800 35 years
    • Growth in population
    x2 in the 16th, slowing 17th c explosion in the 18th c
    (due to less diseases, potatoes, and better agricultural
    production)
    • Limitation of the increase (Health and famines, war and
    birth control
    Food
    Different diets for rich and
    poor:
    Rich people ate more meat
    and wine, less fruit and
    vegetables than poor + white bread
    Poor ate better bread - but few green
    vegetables
    Few sugar and processed
    foods
    New crops: potato, tomato,
    squash, corn
    Chocolate: imported
    Diseases

    • 1720 Bubonic Plague in


    France (last for W. and
    Central Europe)
    Use of quarantine
    • Sanitation: very poor (few
    baths in a year)
    Spring cleaning
    • Medicine: essentially quack
    doctors, no anesthetics
    • Vaccination at the end of 18th
    c for smallpox (Jenner)
    Wars: less involvement of the population
    and large

    Birth control withdrawal and barrier


    methods and infanticide by abandonment
    Family
    • Nuclear in the W. and extended in the E.
    • Concept of household
    • Neo-localism: girls as servants
    • Late marriage
    • Increase of illegitimacy mid 18th c (more
    important in cities):
    freedom of thought, mobility to find work, laws in
    Germany against marriage of the poor, prostitution
    • Concept of children
    different then
    nowadays
    • Child rearing strict
    • Children worked
    • Limited education
    but still better
    literacy rate
    1600:1/6 France
    and Scotland
    1800: 90%
    Scotland and 2/3
    France
    Women’s position
    • Women’s life: parents’
    care then own
    household
    • Kept in the household
    for safety and
    maintenance
    • Usually breastfeeding
    • Generally oppressed
    including with
    Enlightenment

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