The Fruit of Her Hands : Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities /
In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands examines how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped how these women lived and worked.Sarah Ifft Decker...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Naming and Coinage
- Introduction
- Part I: Family Law
- 1 Marriage and Inheritance in Catalan Christian Legal Culture
- 2 Gender, Acculturation, and Resistance in Catalan Jewish Family Law
- Part II: Notarial Culture
- 3 Christian Women in Notarial Culture
- 4 Jews, Notaries, and the Christian City
- Part III: Women's work
- 5 Working Women in Medieval Catalan Cities
- 6 Christian and Jewish Women in the Interreligious Real Estate Market
- 7 Credit, Change, and Crisis in Catalan Jewish Communities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index