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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hutton, S

Titel

Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2011

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• 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.
• English