[Image drawn by Robert Waterhouse, scanned from Jane Grenville's Medieval Housing]
["Cowherds with their cows," Queen Mary Psalter, c. 1320]
[scanned from David Herlihy's Opera Muliebria]
["Kuchenmaistrey," 1505, Johannes Fischauer, Source: Wikimedia Commons]
*Household inventories from northern Germany in particular show that the equipment necessary for brewing beer was common in houses where the head of household held some other occupation. This isn’t the only evidence, but if you ask me, it’s some of the most interesting.
-The Household in Late Medieval Cities: Italy and Northwestern Europe Compared, Edited by Myriam Carlier and Tim Soens, 2001 (Note: About a third to half of this book is written in French. The rest is in English.)
-Medieval Households, David Herlihy, 1985
-Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe, David Herlihy, 2001
-Medieval Housing, Jane Grenville, 1997
-Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, 2003