Inspired by the inquiry about peasant labor hours through the year, is there any research on the labor hours, etc. of artisans and artists? Woodworkers, painters, sculptors, architects, blacksmiths, etc. whose labor sort of varied by the seasons’ change, but wasn’t tied quite as tightly to it?

I would highly recommend checking out Baul Blyton’s Changes in Working Time, pgs 15-17 for a good overview of the literature on this. Hours varied, not so much by the seasons, but by guild regulations and customs (see Saint Monday) and economic conditions (when wages rose, hours often fell). It’s complicated, because you have to balance regulations about daily working hours against the number of holidays.