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Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe

Barbara A. Hanawalt
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  • Introduction
  • PART I: Peasant Women’s Work in the Context of Marriage
    • 1. Peasant Women’s Contribution to the Home Economy in Late Medieval England
    • 2. The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England
  • PART II: Slaves and Domestic Servants
    • 3. To Town to Serve: Urban Domestic Slavery in Medieval Ragusa
    • 4. Women Servants in Florence during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
  • PART III: Occupations Related to Female Biology: Wet Nurses and Midwives
    • 5. Municipal Wet Nurses in Fifteenth-Century Montpellier
    • 6. Early Modern Midwifery: A Case Study
  • PART IV: Urban Women in Work and Business
    • 7. Women in Business in Medieval Montpellier
    • 8. Women’s Work in a Market Town: Exeter in the Late Fourteenth Century
  • PART V: Is There a Decline in Women’s Economic Position in the Sixteenth Century?
    • 9. Women in the Crafts in Sixteenth-Century Lyon
    • 10. Women, the Family Economy, and the Structures of Market Production in Cities of Northern Europe during the Late Middle Ages
  • Contributors
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  • About the Author
This open-access version is made available with the support of Big Ten Academic Alliance member libraries.
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Indiana University Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-25306-914-6 (ebook)
  • 978-0-25336-610-8 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women
  • History
  • Gender
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