Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Women In Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

Editor’s Note: Consider this is a companion guide to the latest podcast over at the Stormer. In Early Modern Europe, women worked considerably more than 3 to 4 hours a day. Household labor went on from dawn until dusk: “One historian calculated how women divided their time, using the information contained in diaries and other similar sources. It is, of course, only a rough indication given that women did not do exactly the same things, depending on whether they lived in the city or the countryside, whether they were rich or poor, whether they were unmarried, married or widows, and whether they were young or old. In spite of this, the results are interesting and give us a vivid picture of tireless women constantly at work.



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