Women's Networks in Medieval France [electronic resource] : Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350 / by Kathryn L. Reyerson.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319389424
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/1419
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XXIX, 257 p. 10 illus. online resource.
Dizi
The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction -- Agnes de Bossones’ Origins, Marriage, and Litigation -- Agnes’s Family Networks -- Agnes’s Networks of Property -- Marriage -- Apprenticeship -- Urban/Rural Connections -- Women of the Marketplace: Horizontal and Vertical Links -- A Community of Prostitutes in Campus Polverel -- Agnes’s Networks of Philanthropy -- Conclusions.
Özet, vb.
This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul and a patron of philanthropic institutions that permitted lower strata women to survive and thrive in a mature urban economy of the period before 1350. Notably, Montpellier was a large urban center in southern France. Linkages stretched horizontally and vertically in this robust urban environment, mitigating the restrictions of patriarchy and the constraints of gender. Using the story of Agnes de Bossones as a vehicle to larger discussions about gender, this book highlights the undeniable impact that networks had on women’s mobility and navigation within a restrictive medieval society.
Konu
Europe __ History __ 476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
France __ History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
History of France.
Literature, Medieval.
France __ History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
History of France.
