The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550

by Martha C. Howell

Book Overview

Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds.

Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate--and ultimately to redefine--property...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226355160
• ISBN13: 9780226355160
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"