Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent
| By: | S. Hutton |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230104952 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230118706 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized.