by the Past & Present editorial team

Past & Present was delighted to learn that Dr. Erin Maglaque (Sheffield) has been awarded the 2022 Society for Italian Historical Studies article prize in Medieval and Early Modern Italian History.

The award is for her article “Care Work and the Family in Catholic Reformation Tuscany” published in Past & Present No. 253 (November 2021).

The citation from the Prize Committee reads as follows:

“The Society for Italian Historical Studies is delighted to award this year’s Article Prize for Medieval and Early Modern Italian History to Erin Maglaque for her article “Care Work and the Family in Catholic Reformation Tuscany,” published in Past & Present in November 2021. Maglaque’s article examines the records of rural wet nursing commissioned by Florence’s Spedale degli Innocenti to reveal the ways that these women manipulated the hospital’s system of paid care work for young foundlings. Maglaque productively argues that the economies of mothering have not always been unwaged, and that paid care work is inextricable from the fluid social, religious, and cultural boundaries defining the family. Maglaque’s article is a theoretically sophisticated piece of engaged scholarship. The author draws on impressive archival work and a breadth of critical approaches including labor history, feminist studies, and the long tradition of social and cultural history in early modern Italy. Congratulations to Erin Maglaque on this important contribution to our field of study!”

To mark the honour of Dr. Maglaque’s work being recognised in this way, and to enable the widest possible number of people to read the article our publisher Oxford University Press has made “Care Work and the Family in Catholic Reformation Tuscany” free to read until January 2023.

Our congratulations to Dr. Maglaque.

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