{"id":1293,"date":"2022-04-18T19:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showcase.lsa.umich.edu\/history\/?post_type=showcase&#038;p=1293"},"modified":"2023-06-27T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:15:36","slug":"season-3-episode-3-the-real-housewives-of-medieval-london","status":"publish","type":"showcase","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-3-episode-3-the-real-housewives-of-medieval-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 3, Episode 3: The Real Housewives of Medieval London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#4d4d4e\">Housekeeping is not timeless, but subject to economic changes, and demographics, and ideological beliefs. Why is housekeeping associated with women? And how do global disasters influence housekeeping and amplify patriarchy?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9-1568x882.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/cupboard_met_16-9.jpeg 1779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/463378<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Season 3, Episode 3: The Real Housewives of Medieval London\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3Rw0FFhMjbd6xmu0vUgwzw?si=Gy-T_Dw9RU2eiHIr4EBg7g&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reverb-effect\/id1486434428\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZlcmJlZmZlY3QubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M\">Google Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4Otp5KrKnJYZVd1S8guPe6?si=UC24WtvISZaa_B_7JbXrIA\">Spotify<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In medieval London, survivors of the Black Death found themselves living in a world that was both very familiar and also very different. The loss of so many people created a severe labor shortage, forcing employers to raise wages. With higher wages, more people could purchase more items, live in spacious homes, and employ domestic workers to help care for these spaces and possessions.&nbsp; In the century before the Plague, such domestic labor was primarily a male enterprise. However, the labor shortage created by the Plague made gender roles expensive, and households experimented with household gender roles. It would take yet another economic crisis a century later for domestic work to become exclusively women\u2019s work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How both the care of household goods, and indeed, the goods themselves, came to be gendered was neither natural nor inevitable\u2014it was a historical process. While demography and economics shaped London\u2019s changing labor force, religious and moral literature guided the path of change and then justified the outcome. Taken together, these changes appear as backlash against the new opportunities and choices available to women in the first century after the Plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-3-episode-3-transcript\/\" data-type=\"showcase\" data-id=\"1297\">View the full episode transcript<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"historian-biography\">Historian Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor&nbsp;<strong>Katherine French<\/strong>&nbsp;is the J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. She is currently the associate chair of the Department of History at the University of Michigan. Her new book,&nbsp;<em>Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague<\/em>, is available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"production-credits\">Production Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Episode Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Katherine French<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Voice Actors:&nbsp;<\/strong>Frank Espinosa, Bethany Donovan, Christopher DeCou&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Host and Season Producer:&nbsp;<\/strong>Allie Goodman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Executive Producer:&nbsp;<\/strong>Gregory Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Editorial Board:<\/strong>&nbsp;Alexander Clayton, Henry Cowles, Christopher DeCou, Allie Goodman, Gregory Parker, Hannah Roussel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cupboard, late-fifteenth century, British (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1910).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Share your thoughts about&nbsp;<em>Reverb Effect<\/em>&nbsp;by messaging&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:reverb.effect@umich.edu\">reverb.effect@umich.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 2022 Regents of the University of Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housekeeping is not timeless, but subject to economic changes, and demographics, and ideological beliefs. 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