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The wealth of wives : women, law, and economy in late medieval London
"London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came f...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Daughters and identities
- Education and apprenticeship
- Inheritance, dowry, and dower
- The formation of marriage
- Recovery of dower and widows' remarriage
- For better or for worse : the marital experience
- Standard of living and women as consumers
- Women as entrepreneurs
- Servants, casual labor, and vendors.