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Daughters of London
Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages
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Kathryn Kelsey Staples
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2011
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In historical records, women appear as widows, sometimes as wives or singlewomen, but one thing they had in common was they all were daughters. Through an examination of the Husting wills, Kate Staples focuses on daughters in the late medieval capital and their chances to own, rent, and manage property. These daughters were provided opportunities to be active economic agents in a world often described as hostile to women. Daughters of London also considers parents’ influence through their bequests to daughters and the visualization of daughters’ household spaces that these bequests allow. By focusing on daughterhood, and particularly urban daughters’ experiences of inheritance, we can refocus the lens through which we see and understand women’s lives in the medieval past
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Kate Kelsey Staples, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University.
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
18. März 2011
eBook ISBN:
9789004203143
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Inhalt:
212
eBook ISBN:
9789004203143
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
women; inheritance; wills; daughterhood; gender; medieval London; urban London
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
Academic libraries, specialists, graduate and undergraduate students interested in women's, gender, and urban history of medieval and early modern Europe.
