YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MEDIEVAL WOMEN MEDIEVAL WOMEN IN THE HOME
“Domesticity was the major expectation that medieval Europe had for omen. They would marry. They would become mothers. They would look after their children and homes.”
As outlined by Dr Eleanor Janega in her book , it wasn't the only expectation placed upon them. “While women were first and foremost wives and mothers, they were never considered that. To be a medieval woman was to be a worker, even if that work was not necessarily valued in the same way men's labour was.” Janega goes further: “The idea that women largely existed in a domestic bubble wholly removed from the realities of labour and work would have seemed laughable to medieval people. In all classes of
