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Author Staples, Kate Kelsey

Title Daughters of London : inheriting opportunity in the late Middle Ages / by Kate Kelsey Staples
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Series Later medieval Europe ; v. 8
Later medieval Europe ; v. 8.
Contents Urban daughters, their opportunities, and London wills -- Testators and their influence in late medieval London -- Prospects of power : inheriting real estate and real opportunity -- Envisioning daughters' lives through movable legacies -- Reinterpreting daughters' economic power in late medieval London
Summary From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women's experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- England -- London -- History -- To 1500
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- London
Marital property -- England -- London
Inheritance and succession -- England -- London
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Inheritance and succession
Marital property
Social conditions
Women
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312
Subject England
England -- London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004203112
9004203117
9789004203143
9004203141