Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800

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
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2 Working through letters: Women’s voices and epistolary culture in the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe
	Letters as evidence of women’s work
	The 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
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3 Uncourtly cloth workers in the Old French sewing songs
	Lienor’s song: Bele Aye
	More than embroidery
	Working for others
	Sewing as women’s professional mestier?
	Cloth workers as ‘foreigners’
	Physical abuse
	Conclusion
	Notes
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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
	Economic influences shaping gender and textile work
	Ideology and iconography
	Conclusion
	Notes
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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
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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
	Chamber work: Sex and intimacy
	Conclusion
	Notes
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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
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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
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9 Working at the margins: Women and illicit economic practices in Lyon in the late seventeenth...
	Women and the cloth trades in Lyon: An overview
	Women’s work at the margin of professional guilds
	Women’s work in the underground economy: The piquage d’once
	Smuggling inside the city: Women and the calicos trade
	Conclusion
	Notes
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10 Contested authority: Working women in leading positions in the early modern Dutch urban economy
	The legal position of women in Holland
	Guilds: Defining positions of authority
	Conflicts in the workshop
	Authority contested
	Conflicts in the boards
	Conclusion
	Notes
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Index