Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation by Merridee L. Bailey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page 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

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Appendix 1: Foliation of Clm 19411 Appendix 2: Tegernseer Liebesbriefe overview

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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 Select bibliography

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 Select bibliography

On becoming a writer Christine’s vision of the writer’s role The wisdom of Christine Conclusion Notes Select bibliography

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 Select bibliography

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 Select bibliography

Historiographical trends A lack of women’s work: Mighty men and women Women’s work: Chastisement and charity Conclusion Notes Select bibliography

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 Select bibliography

The legal position of women in Holland Guilds: Defining positions of authority Conflicts in the workshop Authority contested Conflicts in the boards Conclusion Notes Select bibliography

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