Women
As a woman , at that time frawenzymer , one referred to the entire court of a noble lady of the house as well as her apartments at courts of the 15th century .
This could include more than 50 people of either sex. Followers were for example: court masters, court ladies , ladies of honor, a chaplain , noble boys or a decision-maker who could also be a noblewoman . Among dependent workers, there were: maids , Virgin , Virgin whores , maids, seamstresses, laundresses, cooks, maids , servants , servants , heaters, oven heaters, Goalie, fools and more.
The women's court state was often run separately from that of the man and regulated by a women's room order. The rooms were often in a separate part of the building and sometimes had their own entrance. Such spatial requirements and the frequent absence of men favored the creation of self-determined freedom by women. Some of them preferred this kind of sociability to marriage and the corresponding loss of independence (see also the explanations under misogamy ).
The term women has also been applied to individual women since the 17th century . This is a well-known morality that was often recited by petty singers : Sabinchen was a woman . Since the middle of the 20th century, the term has only been used historically or regionally in everyday language.
literature
- Britta Kägler : An underrated medium? - Letters from the woman's room. In: Wolfgang Wüst (Ed.): Bavaria's Adel. Micro- and macrocosm of aristocratic forms of life. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 3-631-73453-0 , pp. 123-141.
- Britta Kägler: The “woman's room” as an institution and space of action at the Munich court in the early modern period. In: discussions, discussions 5 (2010) - Raumkonzepte - Raumwahrnehmungen - Raumnutzungen ( online )
Web links
- Article "Women" by Cordula Nolte on the website of the Residence Commission
Remarks
- ↑ Cf. for example Florence Hervé (Ed.): Frauenzimmer im Haus Europa. PapyRossa, Cologne, ISBN 3-89438-025-X .