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dc.contributor.advisorSalman, Jeroen
dc.contributor.authorGoddard, Apolline
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-08T23:04:08Z
dc.date.available2024-08-08T23:04:08Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/47217
dc.description.abstractPhilippe Renouard’s 'Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens' (1898), the most complete repository of sixteenth-century Parisian printers, provides an exceptional opportunity to gain insight into the daughters, wives, and widows of the book-trade and new ways of thinking about labor, marriage, and its intersection both within and without the bounds of domestic space. This thesis seeks to understand the extent of the socio-economic role marriage played in the sixteenth century Parisian print-trade: how might a marriage have influenced a printer's commercial or economic prospects? What might have been the labor expectations for his bride? What kinds of marriages took place in the print-trade? What did the juxtaposition of the household and the professional workshop mean for printer’s wives? With a focus on their social origins, marriages, children, and widowhoods, this study of over four hundred women offers a series of new statistics to view both the trade and the women in it from a new perspective. Ultimately, it argues for a reconsideration of marriage with an emphasis on its labor aspects and the specific social, labor, and economic capital possessed by printers’ wives.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.language.isoEN
dc.subjectThis thesis sought to understand the extent of the socio-economic role marriage played in the sixteenth century Parisian print-trade. It placed a stronger emphasis on marriage’s labor aspects and the bounds of domestic space when juxtaposed with the printer's workshop. Focusing on their social origins, marriages, children, and widowhoods, this study of over 400 printers’ daughters and wives offered a series of new statistics to view both the print-trade and the women in it from a new perspective
dc.titleMaking Marriage Work: Daughters, Wives, and Widows in the Sixteenth Century Parisian Print-Trade (0524115 GODDARD)
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsbook trade; printers; sixteenth-century Paris; widow-printers; printer's wives; marriage; domestic space; women's labor;
dc.subject.courseuuAncient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
dc.thesis.id36439


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