The Wealth of Wives: 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 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…
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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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