Phillip Stockhammer looks at the patterns of social position among women within the Lech Valley farmsteads.
He makes a fairly compelling case that some of these imported women were wet nurses. All women are non-local, but the mistresses are less non-local than women in servitude. Or however one wishes to phrase it.
Is there a link to the paper itself?
ReplyDeleteI believe he is only commenting on the previous Lech Valley paper.
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