LEADER 04079nam 22005173 450 001 9910886966203321 005 20250216153525.0 010 $a1-80596-102-0 010 $a0-19-890865-2 010 $a0-19-890866-0 035 $a(CKB)5580000000816102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31812977 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31812977 035 $a(OCoLC)1461997208 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000816102 100 $a20241207d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFemale Servants in Early Modern England 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cBritish Academy,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (438 pages) 225 1 $aBritish Academy Monographs 311 08$a0-19-726758-0 327 $aCover -- Half-title -- A British Academy Monograph -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Service in early modern England -- Church courts -- Methodology -- Landscapes, economies, and people -- How to use this book -- Part I -- 1 Church Courts and Their People -- Charting litigation -- Types of litigation -- Record survival -- Coming to court -- Gendered litigation -- Witnessing across the life cycle -- Means to testify -- Female servants in the church courts -- Identification -- Participation -- The servant witness -- The litigating servant -- Shadowy servants -- Conclusion -- 2 Tracing Lives -- Servants and status -- Signs and marks -- Expressing wealth -- Masters and mobility -- Hiring households -- Servant prospects -- Conclusion -- 3 Time for Service -- The age structure of service -- Early years -- Life-cycle servants -- Married women -- Never married -- Widowhood -- Conclusion -- Part II -- 4 On the Move -- Migration patterns -- Beyond the parish -- Patterns of service -- Length of employment -- The labour market -- On hiring fairs -- Finding work -- Family connections -- Conclusion -- 5 Navigating Service -- Patterns of labour -- With or without covenant -- Terms of agreement -- Wage negotiations -- Breaking agreements -- Conclusion -- 6 Working Lives -- Counting and categorising labour -- Time for work -- Seasonality of work -- The working week -- Time of day -- Accounting for labour -- Household economies -- Division of labour -- Calculating labour -- Training and skills -- Conclusion -- Part III -- 7 The Home and Beyond -- Categorising space -- Imagining space -- The home -- Beyond the home -- (En)forcing hierarchies -- Policing intimacy -- Discipline and labour. 327 $aConclusion -- 8 Neighbours and Networks -- Familiarity and acquaintance -- Acquaintances -- Familiars -- Friendship -- Friendships and alliances -- Witnessing after service -- Reputation -- Conclusion -- 9 Remembering Service -- Retrieving memories -- Memories of labour -- Local histories -- National horizons -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Place Index -- Person Index. 330 $aExcavating experiences of over a thousand women in service from church court testimony, Mansell argues that early modern service was unstable, but finely graded, fluid, and contingent. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, and law, Female Servants in Early Modern England rethinks our understanding of the institution of service. 410 0$aBritish Academy Monographs 606 $aWomen household employees$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aHouseholds$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aWomen household employees$xHistory. 615 0$aHouseholds$xHistory. 676 $a331.7616404609420903 700 $aMansell$b Charmian$01777598 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910886966203321 996 $aFemale Servants in Early Modern England$94299003 997 $aUNINA