Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

Informationen zum Autor SHENNAN HUTTON Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis, USA. Klappentext Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood! Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized. Zusammenfassung Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Urban Context Activity and Continuity: Patterns of Women's Economic Participation 'Her and All Her Property': Gender and Property Transactions Webs of Credit and Circulation of Wealth Married Partners and Single Women as Producers and Sellers The Changing Fortunes of the Burgher and Patrimonial Constructions

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The Urban Context Activity and Continuity: Patterns of Women's Economic Participation 'Her and All Her Property': Gender and Property Transactions Webs of Credit and Circulation of Wealth Married Partners and Single Women as Producers and Sellers The Changing Fortunes of the Burgher and Patrimonial Constructions

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• Authors: S Hutton, S. Hutton, Shennan Hutton
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349289400
• ISBN: 978-1-349-28940-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; B, Gender Studies, Cultural History, Sociology, European History, Social History, Social & cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Europe—History, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages