1st Edition
Women and Work in Premodern Europe Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800
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]
Biography
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.
