The women, law, and economy in late medieval London
A shrewd Venetian visiting England around 1500 commented about the concentration of wealth and property in women's hands. He reported that London law divided a testator's property three ways allowing a third to the wife for her life use, a third for immediate inheritance of the heirs, and...
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2007
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245 | 0 | |b women, law, and economy in late medieval London | |
245 | 0 | |c Barbara A. Hanawalt | |
260 | |a Oxford,New York | ||
260 | |b Oxford University Press | ||
260 | |c 2007 | ||
300 | |a xiv, 317 p. | ||
300 | |b ill. | ||
300 | |c 25 cm | ||
520 | |a A shrewd Venetian visiting England around 1500 commented about the concentration of wealth and property in women's hands. He reported that London law divided a testator's property three ways allowing a third to the wife for her life use, a third for immediate inheritance of the heirs, and a third for burial and the benefit of the testator's soul. Women inherited equally with men and widows had custody of the wealth of minor children. In a society in which marriage was assumed to be a natural state for women, London women married and remarried. Their wealth followed them in their marriages and was it was administered by subsequent husbands | ||
650 | |a Women; Women; Women; England | ||
700 | |a Barbara A. Hanawalt | ||
980 | |a Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |