Eva-Maria Cersovsky (Univ. of Cologne) and Julia Exarchos (RWTH Aachen)
Time: 29.-30.09.2022
Venue: University of Cologne
Registration by: 26.09.2022
Considering how service was perceived, regulated and practiced in relation to gender, speakers take into account the diversity of late medieval forms of service and focus on a broad spectrum of lifelong or periodic service work. This includes domestic service, service work within workshops, brothels, religious communities and poorhouses or military and diplomatic services provided for cities. The conference brings together scholars from different countries, various disciplines and at all career stages to discuss, e.g., divisions of tasks and responsibilities, degrees of coercion and autonomy as well as the monetary and cultural value attached to different forms of service and groups of servants from a gendered perspective. Read moren and source … (Web)
Keynotes
- Jeremy Goldberg (Univ. of York): “They Put Them Out, Both Males and Females, to Hard Service and in the Houses of Other People”: English Servanthood in Comparative Perspective
- Judith Bennett (Univ. of Southern California): Poor Women and the Intimate Labor of Sex in Late Medieval England
Sessions
- Domestic service and work in urban and rural contexts
- Prostitution and unfree labor
- Military and diplomatic services
- Serving and working in religious communities
- Serving and working in textile production