Women And Wealth In Late Medieval Europe
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Women And Wealth In Late Medieval Europe
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Author : T. Earenfight
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Women And Wealth In Late Medieval Europe written by T. Earenfight and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with History categories.
The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.
Women And Wealth In Late Medieval Europe
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Author : T. Earenfight
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-04-14
Women And Wealth In Late Medieval Europe written by T. Earenfight and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-14 with History categories.
The essays in this collection use new research and archival sources to expand on the classic work of economic historians in dissecting the relationship between medieval women, wealth, and power.
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.
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.
Money Morality And Culture In Late Medieval And Early Modern Europe
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Author : Diane Wolfthal
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Money Morality And Culture In Late Medieval And Early Modern Europe written by Diane Wolfthal and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of the first volumes to explore the intersection of economics, morality, and culture, this collection analyzes the role of the developing monetary economy in Western Europe from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. The contributors”scholars from the fields of history, literature, art history and musicology”investigate how money infiltrated every aspect of everyday life, modified notions of social identity, and encouraged debates about ethical uses of wealth. These essays investigate how the new symbolic system of money restructured religious practices, familial routines, sexual activities, gender roles, urban space, and the production of literature and art. They explore the complex ethical and theological discussions which developed because the role of money in everyday life and the accumulation of wealth seemed to contradict Christian ideals of poverty and charity, revealing a rich web of reactions to the tensions inherent in a predominately Christian, (neo)capitalist culture. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe presents a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary assessment of the ways in which the rise of the monetary economy fundamentally affected morality and culture in Western Europe.
Women And Economic Activities In Late Medieval Ghent
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Author : S. Hutton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-11
Women And Economic Activities In Late Medieval Ghent written by S. Hutton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-11 with History categories.
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.
Queenship In Medieval Europe
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Author : Theresa Earenfight
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-16
Queenship In Medieval Europe written by Theresa Earenfight and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The book: - Introduces pivotal research and sources in queenship studies, and includes exciting and innovative new archival research - Highlights four crucial moments across the full span of the Middle Ages – ca. 300, 700, 1100, and 1350 – when Christianity, education, lineage, and marriage law fundamentally altered the practice of queenship - Examines theories and practices of queenship in the context of wider issues of gender, authority, and power. This is an invaluable and illuminating text for students, scholars and other readers interested in the role of royal women in medieval society.
The Wealth Of Wives
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Author : Barbara Hanawalt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Wealth Of Wives written by Barbara Hanawalt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with England categories.
Women And Girls In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kay Eastwood
language : en
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Release Date : 2004
Women And Girls In The Middle Ages written by Kay Eastwood and has been published by Crabtree Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Women and Girls in the Middle Ages shows the roles and duties of women and girls of the nobility and peasantry, and the choices they had. Special emphasis on medieval dress and beauty, women of power, and women of other lands during the same period in history.
A Cultural History Of Women In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kim M. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-02
A Cultural History Of Women In The Middle Ages written by Kim M. Phillips and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with History categories.
The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.