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Marriage Exchange

Name: Marriage Exchange
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226355153
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Property, Social Place, and Gender in the Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550

Autor: Martha C. Howell

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: University of Chicago Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive do...

Informace o knize

Autor

Martha C. Howell

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

1998

Stránek

292

EAN

9780226355153

Enbook ID

04545971

Vydavatel

University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

600

Rozměry

160 x 235 x 23

Kompletní popis

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 and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways.