Women and Work in Premodern Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800
Redaktion: Bailey, Merridee L.; Hotchin, Julie; Colwell, Tania M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the array of meanings attributed to work for and by women, this volume re-evaluates concepts and experiences of work as sites of social, economic and cultural production in which women's identities were created and performed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315475073
• Artikelnr.: 56833881

Autorenporträt

Merridee L. Bailey is a social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern England. She is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Tania M. Colwell specialises in the socio-cultural history of late medieval France and England. She is a visiting fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, and an Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Julie Hotchin is a religious and cultural historian of medieval Europe. She is a visiting fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, and an Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Approaching Women and Work in Premodern Europe Merridee L. Bailey, Tania
M. Colwell, and Julie Hotchin 2. Working Through Letters: Women's Voices
and Epistolary Culture in the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe Diana Jeske 3.
Uncourtly Cloth Workers in the Old French Sewing Songs E. Jane Burns 4.
"When Adam Delved and Eve Span": Gender and Textile Production in the
Middle Ages Sarah Randles 5. "Fortune ce mestier m'aprist": Christine de
Pizan as Writer, Teacher, and Voice of Wisdom Ellen Thorington 6. Home
Work: The Bourgeois Wife in Later Medieval England Jeremy Goldberg 7.
Gender, Authority and Monastic Work: Holy Cross in Brunswick, c. 1500
Julie Hotchin 8. "any Man or Woman being hole & mighty in body": Women's
Work Under Tudor Vagrancy Law Nicholas Dean Brodie 9. Working at the
Margins: Women and Illicit Economic Practices in Lyon in the Late
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Anne Montenach 10. Contested
Authority: Working Women in Leading Positions in the Early Modern Dutch
Urban Economy Ariadne Schmidt