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This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work
was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern
period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building
on the impressive growth in literature on women's working
experiences, and by adopting new interpretive approaches that
expand received assumptions about what constituted 'work' for
women. While attention to the diversity of women's contributions to
the economy has done much to make the breadth of women's
experiences of labour visible, this volume takes a more expansive
conceptual approach to the notion of work and considers the social
and cultural dimensions in which activities were construed and
valued as work. This interdisciplinary collection thus advances
concepts of work that encompass cultural activities in addition to
more traditional economic understandings of work as employment or
labour for production. The chapters reconceptualise and explore
work for women by asking how the working lives of historical women
were enacted and represented, and analyse the relationships that
shaped women's experiences of work across the European premodern
period.
This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across
Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art
historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink
medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is
alert to the emotions which are woven into and through ritual
activities, presents an opportunity to explore profoundly important
questions about people's relationships with others, their
relationships with the divine, with power dynamics and importantly,
with their concept of their own identity. Each chapter in this
volume showcases the different approaches, theories and
methodologies that can be used to explore emotions in historical
rituals, but they all share the goal of answering the question of
how emotions act within ritual to inform balances of power in its
many and varied forms. Chapter 5 of this book is available open
access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work
was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern
period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building
on the impressive growth in literature on women's working
experiences, and by adopting new interpretive approaches that
expand received assumptions about what constituted 'work' for
women. While attention to the diversity of women's contributions to
the economy has done much to make the breadth of women's
experiences of labour visible, this volume takes a more expansive
conceptual approach to the notion of work and considers the social
and cultural dimensions in which activities were construed and
valued as work. This interdisciplinary collection thus advances
concepts of work that encompass cultural activities in addition to
more traditional economic understandings of work as employment or
labour for production. The chapters reconceptualise and explore
work for women by asking how the working lives of historical women
were enacted and represented, and analyse the relationships that
shaped women's experiences of work across the European premodern
period.
This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across
Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art
historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink
medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is
alert to the emotions which are woven into and through ritual
activities, presents an opportunity to explore profoundly important
questions about people's relationships with others, their
relationships with the divine, with power dynamics and importantly,
with their concept of their own identity. Each chapter in this
volume showcases the different approaches, theories and
methodologies that can be used to explore emotions in historical
rituals, but they all share the goal of answering the question of
how emotions act within ritual to inform balances of power in its
many and varied forms. Chapter 5 of this book is available open
access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for
teachers, parents, and children themselves. The question and
procedures of integrating children into wider society during the
medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of
contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study
takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature
(including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century
printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic
books) provided a guide to socialising children. Theauthor examines
how the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how
patterns of thought changed during the period for parents,
teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family
reading networks into the context of debates on the history of
childhood, and the history of the book. MERRIDEE L, BAILEY Is a
social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern
England. She is an Associate Member of the Facultyof History,
University of Oxford.
An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for
teachers, parents, and children themselves. The question and
procedures of integrating children into wider society during the
medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of
contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study
takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature
(including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century
printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic
books) provided a guide to socialising children. Theauthor examines
how the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how
patterns of thought changed during the period for parents,
teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family
reading networks into the context of debates on the history of
childhood, and the history of the book. Merridee L. Bailey is a
social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern
England. She is an Associate Member of the Facultyof History,
University of Oxford.
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