Wives And Widows Of Medieval London

Author : Anne F. Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : England
ISBN : 1907730575

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Wives and Widows of Medieval London by Anne F. Sutton Pdf

Here are ten substantial essays, plus an introduction, by the well-known historian and editor of 'The Ricardian', Anne Sutton, on women in medieval London. The book is thoroughly footnoted and indexed and there is a bibliography. The women in these studies, and their husbands, came from all over England to make their fortunes in London. Many trades and crafts, from pewterers, ironmongers, clothiers, and mercers, to the clerk of the king's council, are represented, but the silkwomen are the most numerous. The persistent historiographical problem of the 'femme sole' is addressed. The emphasis is on women who married several times, their wealth sought by men ambitious for the highest civic offices, who in turn could offer the role of lady mayoress. As widows these women bought and managed properties, ran businesses, founded chantries, dispensed charity, often while bringing up their grandchildren and children of other women. Their multiple marriages created complex networks of families within the parish and company structures of London. The period covered is the 1130s to the 1530s. The book contains several family trees.--amazon.com.

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198042604

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The Wealth of Wives by Barbara A. Hanawalt Pdf

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.

Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : England
ISBN : 0472104152

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Wife and Widow in Medieval England by Sue Sheridan Walker Pdf

Examines the role of women in medieval law and society

Author : Caroline Barron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826421821

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Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 by Caroline Barron Pdf

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.

Author : Caroline M. Barron,Anne F. Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1472599039

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Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 by Caroline M. Barron,Anne F. Sutton Pdf

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.

Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0851155340

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Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death by Mavis E. Mate Pdf

Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.

Author : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882763

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Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner Pdf

This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.

Author : Kathryn Kelsey Staples
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004203143

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Daughters of London by Kathryn Kelsey Staples Pdf

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.

Author : Ffiona Swabey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415925118

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Medieval Gentlewoman by Ffiona Swabey Pdf

"Through an examination of Alice's "Household Book," and using other extant contemporary sources, the author has been able to illuminate the experiences of medieval women in general. The resulting work provides a vivid picture of life in the medieval household, examining marriage and widowhood, daily household and estate management, hospitality and entertainment, education, patronage, religious concerns and the private and public roles of medieval women of the estate-owning class."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Caroline Barron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826421821

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Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 by Caroline Barron Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826419859

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Women in England in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Ward Pdf

Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be reconstructed with accuracy from a variety of sources. We know more about a far smaller number of elite women, including queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Margaret of Anjou; noblewomen, whose characters and attitudes can be sensed directly or indirectly; and a variety of religious women. Literary sources help flesh out real attitudes, such as those of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Jennifer Ward shows the life-cycle of medieval women, from birth, via marriage and child-rearing, to widowhood and death. She also brings out the slow changes in the position of women over a millennium.

Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812299533

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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London by Katherine L. French Pdf

The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come. Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained. The changes in material circumstance reshaped domestic hierarchies and produced new routines and expectations. Recognizing that the greater number of possessions required a different kind of management and care, French puts housework and gender at the center of her study. Historically, the task of managing bodies and things and the dirt and chaos they create has been unproblematically defined as women's work. Housework, however, is neither timeless nor ahistorical, and French traces a major shift in women's household responsibilities to the arrival and gendering of new possessions and the creation of new household spaces in the decades after the plague.

Author : Louise Mirrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000135397

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Upon My Husband's Death by Louise Mirrer Pdf

An exploration of widowhood in medieval Europe

Author : Barbara Hanawalt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : England
ISBN : 019771725X

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The Wealth of Wives by Barbara Hanawalt Pdf

Author : Marie-Françoise Alamichel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3039114042

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Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain by Marie-Françoise Alamichel Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in Medieval Britain based on literary and historical sources from the seventh to the 15th centuries. It devotes much attention to family structures and to the legal and social aspects of inheritance.