Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800 - Paperback

by Merridee L. Bailey (Editor), Tania M. Colwell (Editor), Julie Hotchin (Editor)

By exploring the array of meanings attributed to work for and by women, this volume re-evaluates concepts and experiences of work as sites of social, economic and cultural production in which women's identities were created and performed.

Author Biography

Merridee L. Bailey is a social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern England. She is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

Tania M. Colwell specialises in the socio-cultural history of late medieval France and England. She is a visiting fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, and an Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Julie Hotchin is a religious and cultural historian of medieval Europe. She is a visiting fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, and an Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.