1.
Arnaurd, Colin
Trapped Maidens and Mocked Weavers. Semantics of Ambiguity Between Remunerated and Coerced Labour in Twelfth-Century Textile Production Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 80-105, 2023.
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In Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion, a French Arthurian romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1180, the protagonist finds three hundred captive maidens forced to work on silk fabrics in a cursed castle and complaining about their insufficient remuneration. According to the Gesta Abbatum Trudoniensum, a twelfth-century chronicle of the Abbey of Sint-Truiden (Limburg, Flanders), hired weavers were forced by domanial officers – most probably their employers – to pull a false ship from Kornelimünster near Aachen to Sint-Truiden in 1133. In this article, the two mentioned texts are examined using semantic methods to understand the logics behind the combination of coercion and remuneration in textile labour. The action phrases are analysed, as are the lexical fields of poverty and freedom. The weavers in the Gesta Abbatum Trudoniensum seemed to have the status of hired servants (mercennarius), which implied temporary servitude for the duration of a contract. In Yvain, the insufficient wage of the weaving maidens is presented as chicanery employed to force them to work more. In both texts, poverty is conceptualised in a social, economic, legal, and political sense at once.
2.
Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
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Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.
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3.
Spicksley, Judith
The decline of slavery for debt in Western Europe in the medieval period Book Chapter
In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta (Ed.): Schiavitù e Servaggio nell’Economia Europea Secc. XI-XVIII [Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th–18th Centuries], pp. 465-86, 2013.
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2023
Arnaurd, Colin
Trapped Maidens and Mocked Weavers. Semantics of Ambiguity Between Remunerated and Coerced Labour in Twelfth-Century Textile Production Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 80-105, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: historical semantics, medieval history, textile industry, western europe
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volume = {34},
issue = {2},
pages = {80-105},
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Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time
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Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.
Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.
2013
Spicksley, Judith
The decline of slavery for debt in Western Europe in the medieval period Book Chapter
In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta (Ed.): Schiavitù e Servaggio nell’Economia Europea Secc. XI-XVIII [Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th–18th Centuries], pp. 465-86, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, medieval history, slavery, western europe
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