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Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe (New Middle Ages)
T. Earenfight
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Description for Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe (New Middle Ages)
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 285 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403984326
SKU
V9781403984326
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Ref
99-15
About T. Earenfight
THERESA MARIE EARENFIGHT is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program, Seattle University, USA.
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