Women And Wealth In Late Medieval Europe

Author : T. Earenfight
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230106017

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Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe by T. Earenfight Pdf

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.

Author : T. Earenfight
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1349539872

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Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe by T. Earenfight Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190295226

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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 : Kathryn Kelsey Staples
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Diane Wolfthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351916844

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Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Diane Wolfthal Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415969444

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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Margaret Schaus Pdf

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Author : Susan Mosher Stuard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512807295

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Women in Medieval History and Historiography by Susan Mosher Stuard Pdf

What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the Middle Ages? Susan Mosher Stuard addresses these questions in a collection of essays that delve in to the history and historiography of women in medieval England, France, Italy, and Germany. Contributors include Barbara Hanawalt, Diane Owen Hughes, Suzanne Wemple, Denise Kaiser, and Martha Howell. One of the most interesting observations made in Women in Medieval History and Historiography is the way in which the history of women in each country has followed a distinct course that is in rhythm with other concerns of national historical writing. Women in Medieval History and Historiography will interest historians, scholars of women's studies, and medievalists.

Author : Kay Eastwood
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778713466

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Women and Girls in the Middle Ages by Kay Eastwood Pdf

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.

Author : S. Hutton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230118706

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Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent by S. Hutton Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Hanawalt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : England
ISBN : 019771725X

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The Wealth of Wives by Barbara Hanawalt Pdf

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137542601

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Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe by Alfred Thomas Pdf

Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.

Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521587336

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Women in Medieval English Society by Mavis E. Mate Pdf

Written primarily for undergraduates, this book weighs the evidence for and against the various theories relating to the position of women at different time periods. Professor Mate examines the major issues deciding the position of women in medieval English society, asking questions such as, did women enjoy a rough equality in the Anglo-Saxon period that they subsequently lost? Did queens at certain periods exercise real political clout or was their power limited to questions of patronage? Did women's participation in the economy grant them considerable independence and allow them to postpone or delay marriage? Professor Mate also demonstrates that class, as well as gender, was very important in determining age at marriage and opportunities for power and influence. Although some women at certain times did make short-term gains, Professor Mate challenges the dominant view that major transformations in women's position occurred in the century after the Black Death.

Author : Emilie Amt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134720606

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Women's Lives in Medieval Europe by Emilie Amt Pdf

Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.

Author : Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995420

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A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages by Kim M. Phillips Pdf

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.

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Community life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023154490

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Medieval Women in Their Communities by Diane Watt Pdf

The lives of women in religious communities in late medieval Europe are the main focus of this volume which brings together a body of original research by historians and literary scholars and discusses a variety of such communities in France, Germany and Wales. The perspective is also broadened to include the lives of women in relation to the local community in places as far apart as East Anglian and southern Italy.