CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations

A Brief Note on Conventions and Terms

ONE

Brewsters

TWO

When Women Brewed

THREE

New Markets, Lost Opportunities:
Singlewomen and Widows as Harbingers of Change

FOUR

Working Together:
Wives and Husbands in the Brewers’ Gild of London

FIVE

New Beer, Old Ale:
Why Was Female to Male as Ale Was to Beer?

SIX

Gender Rules:
Women and the Regulation of Brewing

SEVEN

These Things Must Be if We Sell Ale:
Alewives in English Culture and Society

EIGHT

Womens Work in a Changing World

APPENDIX

Interpreting Presentments under the Assize of Ale

Notes

Bibliography

Index