Women were seen as in danger of getting distracted from religious righteousness by things of the world & needing to be reigned in.
Sure, although most people only had thin strips of land to feed themselves.
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Again, depends :) Before enclosure in the UK your own patch varies widely between what you cultivate and what you share...
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...and at various other times (e.g. Norman invasion) we see radical changes in land access too.
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Yes, of course, but most people were always poor & living on subsistence farming.
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To a large extent. Although demographics more complex than is often assumed (and has a big impact on how men and women are treated I think)
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Well, I don't think I'm assuming but admit I have studied middle-class women who wrote mostly.
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I mostly come at this from the agriculture, technology and food use changes.
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