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Index
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: BREWSTERS
CHAPTER TWO: WHEN WOMEN BREWED
Commercial Brewing, c. 1300
The Sexual Division of Labor in Brewing, c. 1300
Prosopography of Brewers, c. 1300
A Good Trade … for a Woman
CHAPTER THREE: NEW MARKETS, LOST OPPORTUNITIES
Not-married Brewsters before the Late Fourteenth Century
The Commercialization of Brewing after 1348
Not-married Brewsters and the Commercialization of Brewing
A Lost Opportunity, Not a Lost Trade
CHAPTER FOUR: WORKING TOGETHER
Gild Formation and Women
Wives and Husbands in the Brewers’ Gild of London
Working Together
CHAPTER FIVE: NEW BEER, OLD ALE
Beerbrewing as an Alien Trade
Beerbrewing and Commercialization
Beerbrewing and Military Provisioning
Why Was Female to Male as Ale Was to Beer?
CHAPTER SIX: GENDER RULES
The Assize of Ale
Schemes to License Brewers
The Regulation of Brewing in Oxford
Brewsters and Regulation
CHAPTER SEVEN: THESE THINGS MUST BE IF WE SELL ALE
Representations of Alewives
Social Analogs
Social Meanings
Misogyny and Brewsters
CHAPTER EIGHT: WOMENS WORK IN A CHANGING WORLD
APPENDIX
I. Interpreting Assize Presentments
II. The Survey of Assize Presentments in Rural Communities
II. The Survey of Assize Presentments in Towns and Cities
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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