Professor Judith Bennett joined Patrick to talk about the difference between ale and beer, and how work - and women's work in particular - changed over time.
Check out Judith's Books!
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344
Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages
Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World
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Beer, Brewsters, and Women's Work: An Interview with Judith Bennett
Tides of History
Tides of History
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.
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