Introduction
Abstrak
Abstract After surveying the existing historiography on service, this chapter proposes a new approach to studying female servants in early modern England. Offering a corrective to the prescriptive codes of behaviour disseminated in legal treatises and didactic literature, this book systematically unpicks evidence of the lives of over 1000 female servants recorded in church court depositions and recasts the household-centred, patriarchal context in which they have previously been studied. The chapter introduces central themes of the book: age and social structure of service, regulation and law, agency and freedom, work, and community. This chapter introduces readers to the church courts and the depositions upon which this study rests. Drawn from a variety of regions across the south and south-west of England, the women within the book lived in both urban and rural settlements that offer different economic, topographical, and social contexts for their study.
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Charmian Mansell
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- 2024
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- 10.5871/bacad/9780197267585.003.0001
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