Jane Whittle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 976430 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Whittle |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Whittle |
| FIRMA | WHITTLE J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4320-9301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1944 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450
Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly after the Black Death. This article assesses the value of English manorial accounts for documenting women’s work. We analyse 1191 manorial accounts from c. 1250-c. 1450 and find that 73 per cent recorded no clear evidence of workers’ gender. Even those …
Where is place in the history of work? Worksites, workspaces, and the home-work nexus
The location of work is a topic of renewed scholarly and public interest, particularly spurred by the recent increase in working from home. Research in several social sciences demonstrates that work locations and workspaces have a significant impact on workers’ lives. Historians concur that in the long term, spatial changes in work have profound effects. It is therefore curious that beyond a limited set of examples, worksites and workspaces have …
The Social Topography of a Rural Community
Comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England
Historians have agreed that the gender division of labour in rural households was broadly similar across the whole of northern and western Europe during the early modern period. Until recently, however, there has been a lack of detailed data about the historical division of labour within European countries with which to test the validity of such cross-cultural generalizations. New research that has collected evidence of work tasks for early moder…
Rethinking the Great Transition
Putting women back into the early modern economy
A dataset of just under 10,000 work tasks gleaned from court depositions that records women's as well as men's work, and unpaid as well as paid activities, prompts a reassessment of the transformation of the early modern economy and women's role within it. Rather than sectoral change in production activities with a growth of manufacturing at the expense of agriculture, the evidence suggests that work tasks changed little over time despite occupat…
The Whole Economy
Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth i…
The gender division of labour in early modern England
This article presents new evidence of gendered work patterns in the pre-industrial economy, providing an overview of women's work in early modern England. Evidence of 4,300 work tasks undertaken by particular women and men was collected from three types of court documents (coroners' reports, church court depositions, and quarter sessions examinations) from five counties in south-western England (Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire…
Working the Land
Review Article| September 01 2019 Working the Land: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day Working the Land: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present DayVerdon, NicolaLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017xiv + 284 pp., $109.99 (cloth); $84.99 (e-book) Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2019) 16 (3): 132–133. https://doi.org…
A Critique of Approaches to 'Domestic Work
This article examines historians’ approaches to work, and particularly women’s housework and care work, in the preindustrial economy. It offers a critique of existing approaches adopted by historians, in which women’s work is often described as ‘domestic’ without a clear definition being offered. The effect is to imply that much of women’s work fell outside the economy. These approaches are then traced back to their roots in classical and neoclas…
Servants in Rural Europe
This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before marriage. Servants tende…
Servants in Rural Europe
Sara Pennell. The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600–1850
Sara Pennell’s The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600–1850 is, to my knowledge, the first book-length history of a particular room within the domestic house. If you are wondering why we might need a history of the kitchen, here is a study that will amply answer your question. It draws on the history of cooking, domestic architecture, technology, design, material culture, work, the household, everyday beliefs, and heritage to show that rather than…
Peasant Petitions
The ‘peasant petitions’ examined in this book by R.A. Houston are written by tenants from north-west England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to their landlords between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. While the process of petitioning might evoke the context of rebellion and communal resistance, the petitions examined here are overwhelmingly deferential, appealing to landlords’ paternalism, and are predominantly individual requests, although…
Enterprising widows and active wives
This article uses 75 matching pairs of probate inventories and supporting documents belonging to married men and their widows to investigate women's unpaid income-generating work within the household economy of rural and small town England between 1534 and 1699. The inventories are drawn from seven localities: county Durham, Cheshire, Chesterfield in Derbyshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, east Kent, Devon, and Cornwall, and are supplemented with eviden…
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain. This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more firmly c…
Rural Economies
The great majority of the population of medieval Europe lived and worked in the countryside. This article examines gender differences in access to land (the key resource), in patterns of work or "the gender division of labor," and in wage earning and wage payments. Work in agriculture, textile production, and food processing is discussed, as well as the nature of domestic work or housework. Although evidence of everyday life is slight or nonexist…
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household
Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610 to 1654. This book uses the Le Stranges' rich archive to imaginatively reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not just at purchases but also at home production and gifts; and not just at the luxurious but also at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Consumption is viewed not just as material culture…
Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household
Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610-1654. The authors have used the Le Stranges' rich archives to reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not only at purchases, but also at home production and gifts, and not only at the luxurious, but at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Here the context of household consumption is illuminated, and …
Material Culture
Studies of early modern consumption have concentrated on durable objects which furnished the home, the goods recorded in probate inventories and those preserved in museums. Probate inventories are problematic because they record textiles very poorly, and museums tend only to preserve the most exquisite luxury objects, which were not typical of the period. Gentry household accounts provide the link between these two approaches to material culture,…
The House as a Place of Work in Early Modern Rural England
This article examines patterns of work in rural early modern English households, looking particularly at the early seventeenth century. It relates models of architectural change and gendered work to the experience of three case-study households and their houses, belonging respectively to a gentleman, a rural craftsman of middling wealth, and a wage laborer. It concludes that there was a trend to separate work from living space well before industr…
Lords and Tenants in Kett's Rebellion 1549
Journal Article Lords and Tenants in Kett’s Rebellion 1549 Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 207, Issue 1, May 2010, Pages 3–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp050 Published: 20 April 2010
Credit and village society in fourteenth-century England - By Chris Briggs
Peasant Politics and Class Consciousness
Journal Article Peasant Politics and Class Consciousness: The Norfolk Rebellions of 1381 and 1549 Compared Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 195, Issue suppl_2, 2007, Pages 233–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm033 Published: 01 January 2007
The gender division of labour in early modern England
This article presents new evidence of gendered work patterns in the pre-industrial economy, providing an overview of women's work in early modern England. Evidence of 4,300 work tasks undertaken by particular women and men was collected from three types of court documents (coroners' reports, church court depositions, and quarter sessions examinations) from five counties in south-western England (Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire…
A Critique of Approaches to 'Domestic Work
This article examines historians’ approaches to work, and particularly women’s housework and care work, in the preindustrial economy. It offers a critique of existing approaches adopted by historians, in which women’s work is often described as ‘domestic’ without a clear definition being offered. The effect is to imply that much of women’s work fell outside the economy. These approaches are then traced back to their roots in classical and neoclas…
Enterprising widows and active wives
This article uses 75 matching pairs of probate inventories and supporting documents belonging to married men and their widows to investigate women's unpaid income-generating work within the household economy of rural and small town England between 1534 and 1699. The inventories are drawn from seven localities: county Durham, Cheshire, Chesterfield in Derbyshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, east Kent, Devon, and Cornwall, and are supplemented with eviden…
Individualism and the Family-Land Bond
Journal Article INDIVIDUALISM AND THE FAMILY-LAND BOND: A REASSESSMENT OF LAND TRANSFER PATTERNS AMONG THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY c. 1270–1580 Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 160, Issue 1, August 1998, Pages 25–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/160.1.25 Published: 01 August 1998
Housewives and Servants in Rural England, 1440–1650
This essay examines the work patterns of housewives and female servants in rural England between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. Despite the fact that such women expended the majority of female work-hours in the rural economy, their activities remain a neglected topic. Here probate documents, wills, inventories and probate accounts are used alongside other types of sources to provide insight into women's work. The three parts of …
Putting women back into the early modern economy
A dataset of just under 10,000 work tasks gleaned from court depositions that records women's as well as men's work, and unpaid as well as paid activities, prompts a reassessment of the transformation of the early modern economy and women's role within it. Rather than sectoral change in production activities with a growth of manufacturing at the expense of agriculture, the evidence suggests that work tasks changed little over time despite occupat…
The House as a Place of Work in Early Modern Rural England
This article examines patterns of work in rural early modern English households, looking particularly at the early seventeenth century. It relates models of architectural change and gendered work to the experience of three case-study households and their houses, belonging respectively to a gentleman, a rural craftsman of middling wealth, and a wage laborer. It concludes that there was a trend to separate work from living space well before industr…
Comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England
Historians have agreed that the gender division of labour in rural households was broadly similar across the whole of northern and western Europe during the early modern period. Until recently, however, there has been a lack of detailed data about the historical division of labour within European countries with which to test the validity of such cross-cultural generalizations. New research that has collected evidence of work tasks for early moder…
Inheritance, marriage, widowhood and remarriage
In medieval and early modern England, men's and women's rights to land were not equal. Sons were preferred over daughters in the inheritance of land. Marriage removed rights of property ownership from women and placed them in the hands of their husbands. Yet land stood at the heart of the economy and society in rural England in a period when agriculture was the main employer and land the main source of wealth, social status and political power. O…
Correlation of in vitro Sulfonamide Resistance of the Gonococcus with Results of Sulfonamide Therapy
Correlation of in vitro Sulfonamide Resistance of the Gonococcus with Results of Sulfonamide Therapy Charles M. Carpenter, Helen Ackerman, Millard E. Winchester, and Jane Whittle CopyRight*Presented before the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association at the Seventy-second Annual Meeting in New York, N. Y., October 14, 1943.†This study was carried out in coöperation with the Division of Venereal Diseases, U. S. Public Health …
Inheritance, marriage, widowhood and remarriage
In medieval and early modern England, men's and women's rights to land were not equal. Sons were preferred over daughters in the inheritance of land. Marriage removed rights of property ownership from women and placed them in the hands of their husbands. Yet land stood at the heart of the economy and society in rural England in a period when agriculture was the main employer and land the main source of wealth, social status and political power. O…
Individualism and the Family-Land Bond
Journal Article INDIVIDUALISM AND THE FAMILY-LAND BOND: A REASSESSMENT OF LAND TRANSFER PATTERNS AMONG THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY c. 1270–1580 Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 160, Issue 1, August 1998, Pages 25–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/160.1.25 Published: 01 August 1998
Earthly Necessities
Journal Article Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain, Keith Wrightson Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 720–721, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.720 Published: 01 June 2001
Family and household in medieval england
Housewives and Servants in Rural England, 1440–1650
This essay examines the work patterns of housewives and female servants in rural England between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. Despite the fact that such women expended the majority of female work-hours in the rural economy, their activities remain a neglected topic. Here probate documents, wills, inventories and probate accounts are used alongside other types of sources to provide insight into women's work. The three parts of …
Peasant Politics and Class Consciousness
Journal Article Peasant Politics and Class Consciousness: The Norfolk Rebellions of 1381 and 1549 Compared Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 195, Issue suppl_2, 2007, Pages 233–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm033 Published: 01 January 2007
Lords and Tenants in Kett's Rebellion 1549
Journal Article Lords and Tenants in Kett’s Rebellion 1549 Get access Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 207, Issue 1, May 2010, Pages 3–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp050 Published: 20 April 2010
Credit and village society in fourteenth-century England - By Chris Briggs
The House as a Place of Work in Early Modern Rural England
This article examines patterns of work in rural early modern English households, looking particularly at the early seventeenth century. It relates models of architectural change and gendered work to the experience of three case-study households and their houses, belonging respectively to a gentleman, a rural craftsman of middling wealth, and a wage laborer. It concludes that there was a trend to separate work from living space well before industr…
Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household
Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610 to 1654. This book uses the Le Stranges' rich archive to imaginatively reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not just at purchases but also at home production and gifts; and not just at the luxurious but also at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Consumption is viewed not just as material culture…
Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household
Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610-1654. The authors have used the Le Stranges' rich archives to reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not only at purchases, but also at home production and gifts, and not only at the luxurious, but at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Here the context of household consumption is illuminated, and …
Material Culture
Studies of early modern consumption have concentrated on durable objects which furnished the home, the goods recorded in probate inventories and those preserved in museums. Probate inventories are problematic because they record textiles very poorly, and museums tend only to preserve the most exquisite luxury objects, which were not typical of the period. Gentry household accounts provide the link between these two approaches to material culture,…
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain. This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more firmly c…
Rural Economies
The great majority of the population of medieval Europe lived and worked in the countryside. This article examines gender differences in access to land (the key resource), in patterns of work or "the gender division of labor," and in wage earning and wage payments. Work in agriculture, textile production, and food processing is discussed, as well as the nature of domestic work or housework. Although evidence of everyday life is slight or nonexist…
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Enterprising widows and active wives
This article uses 75 matching pairs of probate inventories and supporting documents belonging to married men and their widows to investigate women's unpaid income-generating work within the household economy of rural and small town England between 1534 and 1699. The inventories are drawn from seven localities: county Durham, Cheshire, Chesterfield in Derbyshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, east Kent, Devon, and Cornwall, and are supplemented with eviden…
Peasant Petitions
The ‘peasant petitions’ examined in this book by R.A. Houston are written by tenants from north-west England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to their landlords between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. While the process of petitioning might evoke the context of rebellion and communal resistance, the petitions examined here are overwhelmingly deferential, appealing to landlords’ paternalism, and are predominantly individual requests, although…
Servants in Rural Europe
This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before marriage. Servants tende…
Servants in Rural Europe
Sara Pennell. The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600–1850
Sara Pennell’s The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600–1850 is, to my knowledge, the first book-length history of a particular room within the domestic house. If you are wondering why we might need a history of the kitchen, here is a study that will amply answer your question. It draws on the history of cooking, domestic architecture, technology, design, material culture, work, the household, everyday beliefs, and heritage to show that rather than…
Working the Land
Review Article| September 01 2019 Working the Land: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day Working the Land: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present DayVerdon, NicolaLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017xiv + 284 pp., $109.99 (cloth); $84.99 (e-book) Jane Whittle Jane Whittle University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2019) 16 (3): 132–133. https://doi.org…
A Critique of Approaches to 'Domestic Work
This article examines historians’ approaches to work, and particularly women’s housework and care work, in the preindustrial economy. It offers a critique of existing approaches adopted by historians, in which women’s work is often described as ‘domestic’ without a clear definition being offered. The effect is to imply that much of women’s work fell outside the economy. These approaches are then traced back to their roots in classical and neoclas…
The gender division of labour in early modern England
This article presents new evidence of gendered work patterns in the pre-industrial economy, providing an overview of women's work in early modern England. Evidence of 4,300 work tasks undertaken by particular women and men was collected from three types of court documents (coroners' reports, church court depositions, and quarter sessions examinations) from five counties in south-western England (Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire…
The Whole Economy
Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth i…
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