Contents

List of figures, maps, and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1Approaching women and work in premodern Europe

Merridee L. Bailey, Tania M. Colwell, and Julie Hotchin

2Working through letters: Women’s voices and epistolary culture in the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe

Diana Jeske

3Uncourtly 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

6Home work: The bourgeois wife in later medieval England

JEREMY Goldberg

7Gender, authority, and monastic work: Holy Cross in Brunswick, c. 1500

Julie Hotchin

8‘Any Man or Woman beyng hole & mighty in body’: Women’s work under Tudor vagrancy law

Nicholas Dean Brodie

9Working at the margins: Women and illicit economic practices in Lyon in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Anne Montenach

10Contested authority: Working women in leading positions in the early modern Dutch urban economy

Ariadne Schmidt

Index