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The merchant of Prato's wife : Margherita Datini and her world, 1360-1423 /

"Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita's correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, incl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crabb, Ann, 1940- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Avignon, 1374-82
  • Back in Italy, 1383-86
  • Coping with illegitimacy
  • Setting for a domestic partnership, 1394-98
  • Prato, 1389-98: household, farming, building
  • Dictating letters and accounts, collecting loans
  • The family in Prato
  • Contacts and friends
  • Political maneuvers
  • From partial literacy to full literacy
  • Margherita and her relatives
  • Margherita and Francesco, 1400-1410
  • The widow, 1410-23
  • Appendix: Cast of characters.