Dana Wessell Lightfoot

Women, dowries and agency

Marriage in fifteenth-century Valencia

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781526106650
• ISBN-10: 1526106655
• Artikelnr.: 45392257

Autorenporträt

Dana Wessell Lightfoot is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The making of marriage in fifteenth-century Valencia: canon
law, civil law and community opinion 2. Marital alliances and the choice of
spouse 3. Marital property of labouring-status wives 4. Germanía contracts:
the exception to the rule 5. Earning the dowry: domestic service and
donations 6. The right to property: dowry restitution in fifteenth-century
Valencia Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index