Module 1: An overview of institutions of and strategies for survival in early modern Northern Europe

• Bayly, Christopher Alan, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004Compulsory*
• Dennison, T.K.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh, "Serfdom and social capital in Bohemia and Russia": in Economic History Review 60, 3, 2007.Compulsory*
• Erickson, Amy, "Coverture and Capitalism": in History Workshop Journal 59, 2005Compulsory*
• Hunt, Margaret R., Women in eighteenth-century Europe, 1st ed., Harlow, England ;a New York, Pearson Longman, 2009Compulsory*
• Österberg, Eva, Change and adaptation: Mechanisms of a peasant economy, Part of: Mentalities and other realities: essays in medieval and early modern Scandinavian history, Lund, Lund Univ. Press, 1991Compulsory*

Module 2: Working life

• Fiebranz, Rosemarie, Marital conflict over the gender division of labour in agrarian households, Sweden 1750-1850, in the Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400-1900, eds M Ågren & A L Ericksson, 2005Compulsory*
• Hay, Douglas.; Craven, Paul, Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955c edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven., Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2004Compulsory*
• Moor, Tine de; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van, "Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period" in The Economic History Review Vol 63, Issue 1, Blackwell Publishing, 2010Compulsory*
• Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van, "Couples Cooperating?: Dutch textile workers, family labour and the 'industrious revolution', 1600-1800", in Continuity and Change 23 (2) 2008Compulsory*
• Simonton, Deborah, A history of European women's work: 1700 to the present, New York, Routledge, 1998Compulsory*
• Crowston, Clare, "Women, Gender, and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research" in International Review of Social History, Vol 53 (Supplement), Cambridge University Press, 2008Compulsory*
• Lottum, Jelle van, Some aspects of migration in the North Sea region ca 1550-1800, Part of: The dynamics of economic culture in the North Sea and Baltic Region: in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, Hilversum, Verloren, 2007Compulsory*

Module 3: Being in need of help

• Chronicling poverty: the voices and strategies of the English poor, 1640-1840, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996Compulsory*
• Ewan, Elizabeth, To the longer liver: Provisions for the dissolution of the marital economy in Scotland, 1470-1550, Part of: The marital economy in Scandinavia and Britain, 1400-1900, Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, Ashgate, cop. 2005Compulsory*
• Freist, Dagmar, Religious difference and the experience of widowhood in seventeenth- and eighteenth century Germany, Part of: Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe, New York, Longman, 1999Compulsory*
• Health care and poor relief in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Northern Europe, Ashgate, 2002Compulsory*
• Hindle, Steve, On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c.1550-1750, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004Compulsory*

Module 4: Saving, investing and owning

• Marrese, Michelle Lamarche, A woman's kingdom: noblewomen and the control of property in Russia, 1700-1861, Ithaca ;a London, Cornell University Press, 2002Compulsory*
• Rosenhaft, Eve, Did women invent lifeinsurance?: widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany, Part of: Family welfare: gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century, Westport, Conn., Praeger Publishers, 2004Compulsory*
• Spicksley, Judith, "Usury legislation, cash, and credit: the development of the female investor in the late Tudor and Stuart periods", in Economic History Review, 61:2, 2008Compulsory*
• Ågren, Maria, "For better for worse: Swedish marriage and property law in a comparative perspective", in Familles, saviors et reproduction dans l'Europe médiévale et modern. Actes des colloques de Rome, Parme et Nanterre, Rom, 2009Compulsory*

* Compulsory