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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; List of figures, maps, and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Approaching women and work in premodern Europe; Uncovering women's work: Methods and sources; Work and its meanings; Existing and new paradigms for understanding women's work; Themes: Experiences, relationships, and cultural representation; Experiences; Relationships; Cultural representation; Where to from here?; Notes; Select bibliography; 2 Working through letters: Women's voices and epistolary culture in the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe |
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Letters as evidence of women's workThe Tegernsee manuscript: The context of a letter collection; The work of networking: Women and the broader letter collection of Clm 19411; A tradition of intimacy: The literary context of the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe; The influence of Ovid and the Heroides: Tegernseer Liebesbriefe 1-8; The influence of Cicero: Liebesbrief 10 and the redefinition of literary and courtly traditions; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix 1: Foliation of Clm 19411; Appendix 2: Tegernseer Liebesbriefe overview; Notes; Select bibliography |
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3 Uncourtly cloth workers in the Old French sewing songsLienor's song: Bele Aye; More than embroidery; Working for others; Sewing as women's professional mestier?; Cloth workers as 'foreigners'; Physical abuse; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; 4 'When Adam delved and Eve span': Gender and textile production in the Middle Ages; Historiography and methodology; Sources for textile history and problems of interpretation; Civic records; Visual evidence; Literary sources; Lexical evidence; Material and social influences shaping gender and textile work |
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Economic influences shaping gender and textile workIdeology and iconography; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; 5 'Fortune ce mestier m'aprist': Christine de Pizan as writer, teacher, and Voice of Wisdom; On becoming a writer; Christine's vision of the writer's role; The wisdom of Christine; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; 6 Home work: The bourgeois wife in later medieval England; Documenting the bourgeois wife; Learning to become a bourgeois wife; Contributing to the familial economy; Household manager; Childcare; 'Kinship work': Forging social networks |
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Chamber work: Sex and intimacyConclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; 7 Gender, authority, and monastic work: Holy Cross in Brunswick, c. 1500; Holy Cross and the convent diary; Gender and governance arrangements at Holy Cross; Managing spiritual work; Managing temporal affairs; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; 8 'Any Man or Woman beyng hole & mighty in body': Women's work under Tudor vagrancy law; Historiographical trends; A lack of women's work: Mighty men and women; Women's work: Chastisement and charity; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography |
| Summary |
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100-1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women's working experiences, and by adopting new interpretive approaches that expand received assumptions about what constituted "work" for women. While attention to the diversity of women's contributions to the economy has done much to make the breadth of women's experiences of labour visible, this volume takes a more expansive conceptual approach to the notion of work and considers the social and cultural dimensions in which activities were construed and valued as work. This interdisciplinary collection thus advances concepts of work that encompass cultural activities in addition to more traditional economic understandings of work as employment or labour for production. The chapters reconceptualise and explore work for women by asking how the working lives of historical women were enacted and represented, and analyse the relationships that shaped women's experiences of work across the European premodern period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Women -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Sexual division of labor -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Sexual division of labor
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Women
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Women -- Middle Ages
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bailey, Merridee L., editor
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Colwell, Tania M., editor
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Hotchin, Julie, editor
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| LC no. |
2018002649 |
| ISBN |
9781315475097 |
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131547509X |
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