Women's Networks in Medieval France : Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350 / by Kathryn L. Reyerson.
Reyerson, Kathryn L., author.
2016
D111-D203
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Title Women's Networks in Medieval France : Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350 / by Kathryn L. Reyerson.
Author Reyerson, Kathryn L., author.
ISBN 9783319389424
3319389424
9783319389417 (hbk.)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38942-4
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XXIX, 257 pages 10 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-38942-4 doi
Call Number D111-D203
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.902
Summary 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.
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Series New Middle Ages.
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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.

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