Women, dowries and agency :: marriage in fifteenth-century Valencia /

This text examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives - marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced th...

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1. Verfasser: Lightfoot, Dana Wessell (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Gender in history.
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Zusammenfassung:This text examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives - marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781526112453
1526112450
9781781706633
1781706638

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