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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.
| Author(s) | By Charmain Mansell (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 360 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 11 Jan 2024 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
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.
Charmain 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
