The New Middle Ages

Earenfight, T.

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-04-14

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349539871

DOI: 10.1057/9780230106017

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 285