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515,740 Views • May 10, 2023 • Click to toggle off description
Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life - working women. But dig deep and you can find the evidence - proving the medieval period is a fascinating window into the true history of women…and work!
In this video, Eleanor gets hands on in the medieval kitchen with experiential archaeologist Caroline Nicolay to explore the jobs of country women, from dairymaids to cheese-sellers to bakers, uncovering some crooked practices along the way...
It all ties in with Eleanor's fascinating new book: 'The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society'
Watch the full episode to see Eleanor take on the jobs and businesses of real medieval women, from Domina Agnes Ramsey, a highly skilled stonemason with a flourishing business making royal tombs, to Katherine of Bury, a blacksmith plying her trade inside the Tower of London during the Hundred Years' War.
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I remember reading accounts of how much the wives of master craftsmen worked alongside their husbands, especially if they also came from a family in the same line of work.
This is all the more apparent in cases of the widows of master craftsmen who would often take over their late husband's shop until their son/nephew/designated heir came of age.
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Nice video. Just a note: the names Baker and Brewer come from men doing the job, while Baxter and Brewster were the female title.
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Noble women frequently ran their castles while their husbands were away on crusade or were at court. When you read the court rolls women had far more power than is commonly thought.
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I live in a town with a lot of thatched roof houses. One of them recently caught fire and they had to remove the thatch and then the tiles on the neighbouring house. The road was closed for around three weeks because the road needed to be repaired and the chimney of the thatched house was unstable. Fires in these types of houses are no small matter
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We made our own wholemeal bread daily or every 2 days from the 1950s when it was mum's job until we got old enough to help. About 12. It only takes about 15 mins to get to put the bread to rise. (1hr ish) Another couple to knock it back and put in tins to prove. (30 mins). Then in the oven to bake, (30 mins). So for most of the time you can get on with other stuff. Its really easy. Getting the temperatures right for rising and proving can be the trickiest part. Too cold it takes ages, too hot you kill the yeast.
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This is why I hate when (mainly red-pill) men say that women aren't important because "who did/does all the dangerous jobs?" Women did alongside men! Women have consistently worked (outside of the house) all throughout history in every culture, not even taking domestic labour into account. It's such a strange and infuriating myth that women only started working externally in the 1970's.
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"I live in the late Medieval England" lol this woman is amazing
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The "women didn't work" thing is from the victorian era when it became a status symbol for men who made enough money that their wives didn't have to work. Literally all of history women worked. Even if you were upper class, there were specific responsibilities for women. The big difference today is that working women work away from home (think city instead of farm) and can't have their children with them.
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Nice to see Made in South Africa on the three legged pot. These are extensively used in this country for anything from making stews to pot bread and porridge.
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The 13 bakers dozen came from punishment from stealing dough , high punishment from Kings made bakers so paranoid they added a extra 1 to dozen .That's where a bakers dozen came from .
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I like all videos with Doc Eleanor. She tells just how common folk lived and worked in Medieval times.
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I frequently make ricotta cheese, basically using the method shown here. Combine equal amounts of milk and heavy cream, a bit of salt, bring to a boil, take off the heat and add vinegar. Let sit for a few minutes and then pour into a bowl through a sieve lined with a couple layers of cheese cloth. The resulting cheese is to die for and a favorite in my family. (When I'm done, I always feel sad throwing away the whey instead of maybe having a couple of pigs to feed it to...)
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The practice of taking your bread dough to the baker was still going on during the Holocaust. My Maternal Grandmother who was a slave during the Holocaust did this as one of her many tasks.
The baker who was a good person would give her cookies sometimes at risk to their own life.
For if they had been caught they would have paid with their own life for a simple human kindness 😢😢😢
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In India people still do those milkmaid staff at home regularly. So I was sursprised to see how surprised she became after making butter. 😅
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Also a thing to note re: women doing dangerous jobs - the second most common cause of death for ladies (just after dying in child-birth) was catching fire in the kitchen and burning to death. Because large flammable dresses etc.
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I'm glad you are breaking down this myth that women only entered work in the 1960s, people think the idealised 1950s housewife was the standard and not a dream in the USA that most people never even reach then, let alone any decade before or since.
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Aw..My great granny had her own dairy! Nice to hear they were well regarded, as clean and lovely with soft hands.
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like my husband's grandma says "a man works from sun to sun, a woman's work is never done"
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Dr Eleanor does it again, another great video and seeing her make butter, bread, cheese is there no end to the brilliant lady's talents. I love all of her insights.
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@chalk6ix_nz950
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Not to mention being a milk or dairy maid increased your chances of getting cow pox (good and you survived it), as opposed to getting small pox (bad and was a world wide killer). The 2 diseases are related. If you get cowpox, you generally were (more or less) immune to smallpox.
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