• Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)

  • Sep 26 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
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Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)

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  • Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024). 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. This book is available open access here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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