The marriage exchange : property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 /
Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1998
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| Series: | Women in culture and society.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate--and ultimately to redefine--property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226355177 0226355179 9780226355153 0226355152 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
