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Medieval London Widows 1300 1500
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Author : Caroline Barron
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Medieval London Widows 1300 1500 written by Caroline Barron and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with History categories.
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 shows that it is possible to expand the repertoire of examples of medieval women with personalities and individuality beyond the well-known triad of Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath. The rich documentation of London records allows these women to speak for themselves. They do so largely through their wills, which themselves exemplify the ability of widows to make choices and to order their lives.
Medieval London Widows 1300 1500
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Author : Caroline M. Barron
language : en
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Release Date : 1994
Medieval London Widows 1300 1500 written by Caroline M. Barron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Electronic books categories.
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 shows that it is possible to expand the repertoire of examples of medieval women with personalities and individuality beyond the well-known triad of Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath. The rich documentation of London records allows these women to speak for themselves. They do so largely through their wills, which themselves exemplify the ability of widows to make choices and to order their lives.
Medieval London Widows 1300 1500
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Author : Caroline Barron
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Medieval London Widows 1300 1500 written by Caroline Barron and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with History categories.
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 shows that it is possible to expand the repertoire of examples of medieval women with personalities and individuality beyond the well-known triad of Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath. The rich documentation of London records allows these women to speak for themselves. They do so largely through their wills, which themselves exemplify the ability of widows to make choices and to order their lives.
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval Women S Writing
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Author : Carolyn Dinshaw
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-05-22
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval Women S Writing written by Carolyn Dinshaw and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-22 with Literary Collections categories.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
The Merchant Class Of Medieval London 1300 1500
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Author : Sylvia Lettice Thrupp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Merchant Class Of Medieval London 1300 1500 written by Sylvia Lettice Thrupp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Women In Medieval Europe 1200 1500
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Author : Jennifer Ward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Women In Medieval Europe 1200 1500 written by Jennifer Ward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with History categories.
Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted to women. The chapters are arranged thematically to show the varied roles and lives of women in and out of the home, covering topics such as marriage, religion, family and work. For the second edition a new chapter draws together recent work on Jewish and Muslim women, as well as those from other ethnic groups, showing the wide ranging experiences of women from different backgrounds. Particular attention is paid to women at work in the towns, and specifically urban topics such as trade, crafts, healthcare and prostitution. The latest research on women, gender and masculinity has also been incorporated, along with updated further reading recommendations. This fully revised new edition is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the topic, perfect for all those studying women in Europe in the later Middle Ages.
The Wealth Of Wives
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Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-11
The Wealth Of Wives written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-11 with History categories.
London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from a variety of sources, the recirculation of wealth through London women was important in providing both material and social capital for the growth of London's economy. A shrewd Venetian visiting England around 1500 commented about the concentration of wealth and property in women's hands. He reported that London law divided a testator's property three ways allowing a third to the wife for her life use, a third for immediate inheritance of the heirs, and a third for burial and the benefit of the testator's soul. Women inherited equally with men and widows had custody of the wealth of minor children. In a society in which marriage was assumed to be a natural state for women, London women married and remarried. Their wealth followed them in their marriages and was it was administered by subsequent husbands. This study, based on extensive use of primary source materials, shows that London's economic growth was in part due to the substantial wealth that women transmitted through marriage. The Italian visitor observed that London men, unlike Venetians, did not seek to establish long patrilineages discouraging women to remarry, but instead preferred to recirculate wealth through women. London's social structure, therefore, was horizontal, spreading wealth among guilds rather than lineages. The liquidity of wealth was important to a growing commercial society and women brought not only wealth but social prestige and trade skills as well into their marriages. But marriage was not the only economic activity of women. London law permitted women to trade in their own right as femmes soles and a number of women, many of them immigrants from the countryside, served as wage laborers. But London's archives confirm women's chief economic impact was felt in the capital and skill they brought with them to marriages, rather than their profits as independent traders or wage laborers.
Women S Voices In Tudor Wills 1485 1603
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Author : Susan E. James
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Women S Voices In Tudor Wills 1485 1603 written by Susan E. James and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with History categories.
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.
Daughters Of London
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Author : Kathryn Kelsey Staples
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-03-18
Daughters Of London written by Kathryn Kelsey Staples and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-18 with History categories.
From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.
Everyday Life In Medieval London
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Author : Toni Mount
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Everyday Life In Medieval London written by Toni Mount and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with History categories.
Step back in time to medieval London to find out about the lives of those working and living there.