Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as repr

This book explores servants in husbandry and considers the wider historiographical implications.

This lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, multi-layered, mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early m

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as repr

Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that