Serving Aristocracy

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in seventeenth-century Sweden.

Anna Nilsson Hammar is Researcher in History at Lund University. She is the author and editor of several books and articles on the history of knowledge, early modern history, and everyday life, among them Servants as Creditors: Navigating the Moral Economy of an Early Modern Aristocratic Household (2022).
Svante Norrhem is Associate Professor of History at Lund University. He is the author of several books and articles on early modern gender history, diplomacy, and servants, among them Knowing How: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency Among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden (2023).