LIFE IN THE 18TH CENTURY Unit 4: Chapter 20. I. Marriage and the family A. Nuclear family common in pre-industrial Europe.

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LIFE IN THE 18TH CENTURY Unit 4: Chapter 20

I. Marriage and the family A. Nuclear family common in pre-industrial Europe.

B. Age at marriage higher prior to The Poor married later in life (late 20s or older for both men and women). a. economic independence (land ownership) b. Men required land / women needed a dowry 2. Many men and women never married.

C. Young adults work away from home 1. males: apprentices or laborers 2. females: domestic servants – often victim of physical & sexual abuse

D. Premarital Sex and Birth-control Practices. 1. Premarital sex common before a.Communal control 2. Birth Control E. New Patterns of Marriage and Legitimacy 1. Growth of cottage industry: young people married for love : explosion illegitimate births.

F. Changes in attitudes toward children 1. Child care and nursing a.Wet-nursing & swaddling 2. Infanticide was rampant due to severe poverty 3. Children defined by indifference and strict physical discipline a. High mortality rates b. “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”

G. Foundling hospitals emerged 1. St. Vincent de Paul

H. Reformation spurred formal education for the masses. 1. Prussia first to develop universal compulsory education 2. Enlightenment – emphasis on education a. Rousseau’s – Emile 1) called for greater love & tenderness toward children

Literacy Rate in 18 th century France

II. Nutrition and medical advances A. Increased life spans 1. Disappearance of the plague and starvation. a. Brown Rat 2. Development of public health techniques a. sanitation / sewers

B. Improvement in diet and nutrition 1. Upper-class diet a. Gout 2. Poor peoples’ diet a. lacked Vitamins A & C b. Improved diet: Potato & Increased variety of vegetables c. End to Price Revolution in 1650

C. Medicine 1. Smallpox (killed 60 million in 18 th century) a. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1) smallpox inoculation b. Edward Jenner 1) Cowpox - Vacination

D. Medical Professions 1. Midwives – Madame du Coudray a. Manual on the art of childbirth 2. Physicians – university educated 3. Faith healers – exorcisms 4. Apothecaries – herbs & medicines 5. Surgeons - glorified butchers

III. Religious Reform A. Church hierarchy and state power sought to regulate religious life at the local level. 1. Local parishes were focal point of religious devotion 2. Protestant authorities regulated their churches strictly.

B. Pietism and Methodism provided challenge to established churches. 1. “Pietism” led to Protestant revival. a.Emotional content of Christian faith stressed. b.Reasserted “priesthood of all believers.” 1) Spurred public education. c.believed in practical power of Christian rebirth in everyday affairs – “born again”

C. John Wesley ( ) founded Methodism. 1. sought to reform stagnant state of religion in England. a. preached in open fields. b. rejected predestination. 2. The Great Awakening & Evangelism