IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1207: Female Economic Agency in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Verena Weller, Historisches Institut, Universität Mannheim |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Julia Bruch, Historisches Institut, Universität Köln |
| Paper 1207-a | Mobility of Women Workers in 16th-Century Southwestern Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General, Gender Studies, Social History |
| Paper 1207-b | Conditions of Female Wage Work in Late Medieval Nuremberg (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1207-c | Female Investments in Montpellier in the 13th and 14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Female work was of great importance for the economy of villages and towns in the Middle Ages, even if women usually lacked formal training and were paid poorly. Women left their hometowns to earn money and connected urban centres with rural hinterlands. However, they not only worked, but they also were market agents who acted as investors to increase their wealth. This session explores the work conditions of women in Nuremberg, the mobility of female employees of the hospitals of 16th-century Speyer, and female investments in Montpellier in the 13th and 14th centuries. |