Female Servants in Early Modern England

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Charmian 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Charmain (Research Fellow Mansell, Charmian Mansell, Charmian (Research Fellow Mansell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2024
• EAN: 9780197267585
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726758-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Economic history, British & Irish history, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700