This article demonstrates, using evidence from church court depositions, that women's experience of service in early modern England was more varied than scholarship suggests. Moving beyond its conception as a life-cycle annual occupation, the article situates service within individual life-stories. It argues firstly, that service extended across the whole of women's working lives and secondly, that employment arrangements took a wide range of forms. Service for women is shown to have been flexible, varied and contingent, employing a diversity of individuals under a variety of different employment agreements.

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英格兰（1548-1649）女性仆人经历的多样性：来自教会法庭证词的证据

本文使用来自教会法庭证词的证据表明，现代早期英格兰女性的服务经历比学术所暗示的更为多样化。文章超越了其作为生命周期年度职业的概念，将服务置于个人生活故事中。它认为，首先，这种服务延伸到妇女的整个职业生涯，其次，就业安排采取了多种形式。为妇女提供的服务被证明是灵活的、多样的和有条件的，根据各种不同的就业协议雇用了各种各样的人。