Women's Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350

by Kathryn Reyerson and Kathryn L. Reyerson

Book Overview

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul and a patron of philanthropic institutions that permitted lower strata women to survive and thrive in a mature urban economy of the period before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319817787
• ISBN13: 9783319817781
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"