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Inspired By A Conference Entitled: Gender, Religion, Poverty And Revolution, Held At Oxford On July 9, 2004, To Honor Olwen Hufton. His And Hers: Gender, Consumption And Household Accounting In Eighteenth-century England / Amanda Vickery -- Gender And Welfare In Modern Europe / Jane Lewis -- Rooms To Share: Convent Cells And Social Relations In Early Modern Italy / Silvia Evangelisti -- Concubinage And The Church In Early Modern Münster / Simone Laqua -- A Confessor And His Spiritual Child: François De Sales, Jeanne De Chantal, And The Foundation Of The Order Of The Visitation / Ruth Manning -- Letters To Lucie: Spirituality, Friendship, And Politics During The Dreyfus Affair / Ruth Harris -- Witchcraft, Nostalgia, And The Rural Idyll In Eighteenth-century Germany / Lyndal Roper -- The 'religious Sense' In A Post-war Secular Age / Alex Owen -- Olwen Hufton's 'poor', Richard Cobb's 'people', And The Notions Of The Longue Durée In French Revolutionary Historiography / Colin Jones. [edited By Ruth Harris & Lyndal Roper]. Based On Papers From A Conference Entitled Gender, Religion, Poverty And Revolution Held At Oxford On July 9, 2004 To Honor Olwen Hufton. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.