Abstract
Women in Northern Europe artistic workshops at the end of the Middle Ages. The author proposes to explore the presence of women in the workshops and the gender relations in cultural production at the end of the Middle Ages. She also links with the question of public and private space devoted to women. The contribution is based on unpublished inquiries in French, Flanders and English archives. Even if mentions of women in workshops are very few, it doesn’t mean that the wife, the sister or the daughter of an artist don’t take any part in the process of creation. In northern Europe, in France, in Flanders, in Germany and in England, women are members of crafts, by their own, or as widows of a dead master. In Paris, women are numerous in the artistic crafts, they are six “orfévresses” in 1292 according to the “Taille” register. Widows, wives, sisters and daughters are considered as members of the family workshop. Here, the gender notion seems to come after the importance of lineage.
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