Women and Work in Premodern Europe

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 wo