Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

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.

Author: S. Hutton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/24/2011
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230104952

About the Author
SHENNAN HUTTON Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.