Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (The New Middle Ages)

by ShennanHutton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $130.95

  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.