Unit 9 Flashcards
Newly married couple lives with bride or groom’s family
extended family
Newly married couple establishes own household upon marriage
nuclear family
money that a women and her family accumulated in order to contribute financially to a new marriage
dowry
born to unwed parents
illegitimate
rules that a village would place upon others in order to control such things as marriage and child birth
Community controls
primary method of birth control in 18th century Europe; not completing the sexual act necessary for procreation
Coitus interruptus
refers to the increase in children born with unmarried parents starting in the mid to late 1700s
Illegitimacy explosion
upper class practice of having a child nurse with another woman
wet nursing
Killing of unwanted infants, usually by exposure
infanticide
Homes for abandoned children
Foundling homes
Catholic priest from Notre Dame de Paris who started the first foundling home
Saint Vincent de Paul
piece written by Rousseau that called for greater love in child rearing; also argued for gender-specific education
Emile
Wrapping infants in tight clothes or blankets to straighten their form
swaddling
concept that prices for basic foodstuffs should controlled, even if imposed by government decree
just price
concept that the forces of supply and demand should control prices
market price
18th century medical practice of inducing diarrhea with herbs, etc.
purging
18th century medical practice; attempted to balance the bodily “humours”
blood letting
discovered a smallpox vaccine that was made from cowpox
Edward Jenner
implemented by Joseph II of Austria, it abolished the contemplative orders in the Catholic Church
Edict of Idle Institutions
18th century movement that attempted to return Protestantism to its original concepts
Pietism
founder of Methodism
John Wesley
religious celebration that precedes the beginning of Lent
Carnival
