Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized.

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SHENNAN HUTTON Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.

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Book Title: Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent
Authors: Shennan Hutton
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118706
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10495-2Published: 24 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28940-0Published: 24 March 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11870-6Published: 11 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, Gender Studies, European History, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, Medieval Literature

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