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Paul Troger, Two Beggars with their Dog (c. 1728)

Imperial Trade Ordinance [Reichshandwerksordnung] (August 16, 1731)

Johann Wilhelm Meil, A Woodcutter Carrying His Axe (18th century)

Frederick II (“the Great”), Memorandum to the Administration of Electoral Brandenburg on the Landlord-Peasant Relationship (1755)

Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden, Proclamation of the Abolition of Serfdom in Baden (July 23, 1783)

Emperor Joseph II’s Patent on Serfdom [Leibeigenschaft] (November 1, 1781)

Emperor Joseph II’s “Buying-In” Patent (November 1, 1781)

The Prussian Regulation Edict of 1811 (September 14, 1811)

The Legal Status of Subject Villagers in Prussia, as reflected in the General Law Code for the Prussian States (1794)

The Prussian “October Edict” of 1807 (October 9, 1807)

Emperor Joseph II’s Taxation and Urbarial Patent (1789)

Jérôme [Hieronymus] Napoleon, King of Westphalia, Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in the French Satellite Kingdom of Westphalia (January 23, 1808)

Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in Schleswig-Holstein (December 19, 1804)

The Prussian Declaration of 1816, modifying the Regulation Edict of 1811 (May 29, 1816)

Anton Spreng, A Peasant Eating (19th century)

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, The Occupations of Ladies (1781)

Family and Gender

Theodor von Hippel, On Improving the Status of Women (1792)

“The Education of the Countryman in Lippe” (1789)

“Medical Advice on the Bodily and Mental Health of Children” (1794)

A Protestant Pastor on Courtship and Marriage among Propertied Farmers and Tenant Farmers in Westphalia (1786)

On Child Rearing in the Villages of the Southern German Principality of Ansbach (1787)

General Law Code for the Prussian States, Part II.2: “Of the Mutual Rights and Obligations of Parents and Children” (1794)

Johanna Schopenhauer, the Daughter of a Danzig Merchant, Reflects on Her Childhood and Youth in the 1770s (published posthumously, 1839)

A Boy’s Childhood in Cologne, c. 1810 (1862)