Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

By Theresa Marie Earenfight

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349539872
• ISBN13: 9781349539871
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"