Status, Estate, or Profession?
This article focuses on how social stratification was performed in everyday practice in 1730s Sweden. By studying the titles people were given in the court material of three communities – Uppsala town, Lagunda härad, and Sala town with its silver mine – three factors defining social categorization c...
| Published in: | Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 166 - 193 |
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