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

Publication Info.	Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
	©2013

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Gender in history
	Gender in history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	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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Subject	Marriage -- Spain -- Valencia -- History -- 15th century.
	Marriage.
	Spain -- Valencia.
	History.
Chronological Term	15th century
Subject	Wives -- Spain -- Valencia -- Social conditions -- 15th century.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	Wives.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Social conditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	HISTORY / Social History.
	Wives -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1400-1499
Genre/Form	History.
Subject	Marriage.
Other Form:	Print version: Lightfoot, Dana Wessell. Women, dowries and agency. Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013] 9780719089466 0719089468
ISBN	9781526112453 (electronic book)
	1526112450 (electronic book)
	9781781706633
	1781706638
	9780719089466
	0719089468