However, there is also the opposite version, which points to the very low pay of spinners in the early Middle Ages, on account of which this work was done precisely by unmarried women, that is, those less socially integrated and less…
However, there is also the opposite version, which points to the very low pay of spinners in the early Middle Ages, on account of which this work was done precisely by unmarried women, that is, those less socially integrated and less endowed with the privilege of contacts with guilds and craftsmen. Thus spinsters found themselves bound, literally into old age, to nothing but yarn, distanced not only socially but also financially from the stratum of the married. A married lady, by definition better off thanks to the accretion of capital, simply would not have spent her time on spinning, which would have brought her far greater income had she devoted herself to the trade in cloth or to sewing. In short, as many spinsters, so many opinions
