Trapped Maidens and Mocked Weavers. Semantics of Ambiguity Between Remunerated and Coerced Labour in Twelfth-Century Textile Production
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 Trudoni...
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StudienVerlag
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/8339 |