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Women, dowries and agency : marriage in fifteenth-century Valencia / Dana Wessell Lightfoot. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lightfoot, Dana Wessell, author.
- Series:
- Gender in history.
- Gender in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wives--Spain--Valencia--Social conditions.
- Wives.
- Marriage--Spain--Valencia--History--To 1500.
- Marriage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : 1 map (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- This text examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives - marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78170-663-8
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