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Women, dowries and agency : marriage in fifteenth-century Valencia / Dana Wessell Lightfoot

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Lightfoot, Dana Wessell
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Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
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©2013
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This text examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives - marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed.
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9781526112453 (electronic bk.)
1526112450 (electronic bk.)
9781781706633
1781706638
9780719089466
0719089468
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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