Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

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Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent is written by S. Hutton and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230118704 (ISBN 10) and 9780230118706 (ISBN 13).

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.