List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Stepfamilies in the European Past; Chapter 2 Jewish families, conversion, and the creation of stepfamilies in Girona after the anti-Jewish violence of 1391; Chapter 3 Stepfamilies in Sweden, 1400 to 1650: the family in process between bloodlines and continuity; Chapter 4 Stepfamilies and inclusive families in early modern Venice; Chapter 5 Virtual stepfamilies: illegitimate children, half-siblings, and the early modern Spanish nobility; Chapter 6 Stepmothers at law in early modern England; Chapter 7 ¿The Riddle of Nijmegen¿ ( Het Raadsel van Nijmegen ), complicated marriages, stepfamilies and early modern Dutch law; Chapter 8 Stepfamilies and blended families in Protestant funeral sermons in early modern Germany; Chapter 9 Stepfamily relationships in autobiographical writings from seventeenth-century Hungary; Chapter10 Emotional bonds and the everyday logic of living arrangements: stepfamilies in dispensation records of late eighteenth¿century Austria; Chapter 11 Stepfamily relationships in multigenerational households: the case of Toulouse, France in the eighteenth century; Chapter 12 Seeing Stepfamilies in European Visual Culture; Appendix: Visual Sources of the Stepfamily in the European Past, 1400-1800; Chapter 13 Conclusion: Continuity and Change in Stepfamily Lives, 1400-1800; Chapter 14 Suggestions for Further Reading; Index.