Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

by Shennan Hutton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230104959
• ISBN13: 9780230104952
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"