Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates - By Bret Devereaux

Peasant women always worked, and their labour was every bit as essential as the men’s. Historian Bret Devereaux turns to women’s work, above all the endless spinning of thread that every household’s clothing demanded, from Roman ideals of the wife who ‘worked wool’ to the hours of spindle-time a family’s cloth required. * 00:00 - Introduction * 03:56 - Women’s Work * 11:53 - Spinning and Weaving But Mostly Spinning * 24:38 - Lanam Fecit * 35:35 - Spindle-Time https://acoup.blog/2025/09/26/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivd-spinning-plates/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe