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Barbara A. Hanawalt

The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London

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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 marriagewas assumed to be a natural state for women, London women married and remarried. Their wealth followed them in their marriages and it was administered by subsequent husbands. This st… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-531175-4
  • EAN: 9780195311754
  • Produktnummer: 22678023
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 658 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 658

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