Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. While some…
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Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. While some worked as full-time or part-time prostitutes, they more generally performed a variety of necessary gendered tasks, including laundering, sewing, cooking, and nursing. This included those notable female individuals who assumed male identities to serve in the ranks, but far more numerous and essential were the formidable women who, as women, marched in the train of armies.
Lynn argues that, before 1650, women were also fundamental to armies because they were integral to the pillage economy that maintained troops in the Early modern armies were always accompanied by women and regarded them as essential to the well-being of the troops.