Medieval Women with Eleanor Janega
Gone Medieval
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Women's Work in the Medieval Period
There's pretty much no profession or anything that happens in the medieval period that women don't do. There are jobs in terms of farming that are seen as being more feminine. Bookkeeping and mathematics is like very specifically a job for wives. For example, silk making is feminine because it's an incredibly lucrative trade. And they're involved in really high level diplomacy between countries.
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