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The marriage exchange : property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550
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ISBN: 0226355160 0226355152 9780226355160 Year: 1998 Volume: *33 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate --and ultimately to redefine-- property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways. Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens --wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds.


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Commerce before capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600
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ISBN: 9780521760461 9780521148504 0521760461 0521148502 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

Women, production, and patriarchy in late medieval cities
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ISBN: 0226355039 0226355047 9786612189241 1282189247 0226355063 9780226355030 9780226355047 9781282189249 9780226355061 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In this bold reinterpretation of Women's changing labor status during the late medieval and early modern period, Martha C. Howell argues that women's work was the product of the intersection of two systems, one cultural and one economic. Howell shows forcefully that patriarchal family structure, not capitalist development per se, was a decisive factor in determining women's work. Women could enjoy high labor status if they worked within a family production unit or if their labor did not interfere with their domestic responsibilities or threaten male control of a craft or trade.

The marriage exchange
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ISBN: 1282069942 9786612069949 0226355179 9780226355177 9780226355153 0226355152 0226355152 0226355160 9780226355160 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens-wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate-and ultimately to redefine-property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways.


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Becoming early modern in the late medieval Low Countries.
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The power of space in late medieval and early modern Europe : the cities of Italy, northern France and the Low Countries
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ISBN: 9782503547848 9782503548227 2503547842 Year: 2013 Volume: 30 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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This volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe’s most powerful commercial cities of the period. Hardly inert sites on which political action took place, the spaces these authors investigate conferred power on those who possessed them. At the same time they were themselves transformed by the struggles, thus acquiring new powers that invited future contest. Thus implicitly responding to Georges Lefebvre’s claim that space is “produced”, the authors ask how space was perceived and used in everyday life, giving specific spaces cultural, social, and political coherence (“le perçu”); how it was represented or theorized, thus encoded in symbols, maps and laws (“le conçu”); and how it was lived, in effect the result of the dialectical relation between the perceived and the represented (“le vécu”).

From reliable sources : an introduction to historical methods
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ISBN: 0801435730 0801485606 9780801435737 9780801485602 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press,

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From reliable sources is an introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus is on the basics of source criticism and is a guide for all students of history and for anyone who must extract meaning from written and unwritten sources. Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier explore the methods employed by historians to establish the reliability of materials; how they choose, authenticate, decode, compare, and, finally, interpret those sources. Illustrating their discussion with examples from the distant past as well as more contemporary events, they pay particular attention to recent information media, such as television, film, and videotape. The authors do not subscribe to the positivist belief that the historian can attain objective and total knowledge of the past. Instead, they argue that each generation of historians develops its own perspective, and that our understanding of the past is constantly reshaped by the historian and the world he or she inhabits.


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Uit goede bron : introductie tot de historische kritiek
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Year: 2000 Publisher: Leuven: Garant,

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Werkstatt des Historikers : eine Einführung in die historischen Methoden
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ISBN: 3825225240 Year: 2004 Publisher: Köln Böhlau

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Reconsidering the early modern urban economy : the cases of Leiden and Lille
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