| Description |
1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
The new Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Constant du Hamel : women, money, and power in an Old French Fabliau / Daniel M. Murtaugh -- Take all my wealth and let my body go / M.C. Bodden -- "Consider, I beg you, what you owe me" : Heloise and the economics of relationship / Sally Livingston -- Money isn't everything : concubinage, class, and the rise and fall of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377-87) / Núria Silleras-Fernández -- Merchant women and the administrative glass ceiling in thirteenth-century Paris / Sharon Farmer -- "Appropriate to her sex"? Women's participation on the construction site in medieval and early modern Europe / Shelley E. Roff -- The spending power of a crusader queen : Melisende of Jerusalem / Helen A. Gaudette -- Exploring the limits of female largesse : the power of female patrons in thirteenth-century Flanders and Hainaut / Erin L. Jordan -- Money, books, and prayers : anchoresses and exchange in thirteenth-century England / Lara Farina -- Women and property conflicts in late medieval England / Anna Dronzek -- Private properties, seigniorial tributes, and jurisdictional rents : the income of the queens of Portugal in the late Middle Ages / Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues and Manuela Santos Silva -- Royal finances in the reign of María of Castile, queen-lieutenant of the crown of Aragon, 1432-53 / Theresa Earenfight |
| Summary |
"The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe reexamine the vexing issues 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, focusing especially on 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."--Print version book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- Europe -- History
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Women in public life -- Europe -- History
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Wealth -- Europe -- History
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Gender studies: women -- c 1000 CE to c 1500 -- Europe.
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European history -- c 1000 CE to c 1500 -- Europe.
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Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 -- c 1000 CE to c 1500 -- Europe.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Society.
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Wealth
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Women in public life
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Women -- Political activity
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Politik
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Handel
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Frau
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Earenfight, Theresa, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780230106017 |
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0230106013 |
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9781349539871 |
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1349539872 |
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1282909061 |
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9781282909069 |
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9786612909061 |
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6612909064 |
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