Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

Author
Theresa Earenfight (eds.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Year
2010
ISBN
9780230106017,978-1-349-53987-1,978-0-230-10601-7
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.8 MiB

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue 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, especially 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.

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