Female Servants in Early Modern England

Charmian Mansell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726758-5 (ISBN)

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Excavating experiences of over a thousand women in service from church court testimony, Mansell argues that early modern service was unstable, but finely graded, fluid, and contingent. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, and law, Female Servants in Early Modern England rethinks our understanding of the institution of service.

What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence recorded in church court testimony, Mansell excavates experiences of over a thousand female servants between 1532 and 1649. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, law, migration, youth, and community, Female Servants in Early Modern England rethinks traditional scholarship of servant institution. De-coupling 'household' and 'service', it highlights the importance of female servants' labour to the wider economy and their key role in broader social networks and communities, despite their high mobility. Moving beyond regulatory codes of service prescribed by law and conduct literature, Mansell reveals the varied experiences of these women in service, both fluid and contingent: in early modern England, service (and the freedoms it allowed) was in flux.

Charmain Mansell is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has held positions at University College London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Exeter, the University of Oxford, and the Institute of Historical Research. She is a social and economic historian of early modern England and has published on histories of gender, work, community, migration, and freedom.

1: Introduction
2: Church Courts and their People
3: Tracing Lives
4: Time for Service
5: On the Move
6: Navigating Service
7: Working Lives
8: The Home and Beyond
9: Neighbours and Networks
10: Remembering Service

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	British Academy Monographs
Zusatzinfo	1 colour map, 75 b/w images
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	682 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-726758-0 / 0197267580
ISBN-13	978-0-19-726758-5 / 9780197267585
Zustand	Neuware