Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire C.1300-1520

by P.J.P. Goldberg

Book Overview

This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and Yorkshire, but also utilizes evidence from other parts of England and continental Europe. P.J.P. Goldberg explores the role of women in the economy and the part that marriage played in their lives. Importantly, he challenges the Wrigley and Schofield thesis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198201540
• ISBN13: 9780198201540
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"