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Dissertation Information for Rebecca Lynn Winer

NAME:
- Rebecca Lynn Winer

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1996)

ADVISORS:
- Robert I. Burns

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: Silent partners? Women, commerce, and the family in medieval Perpignan, c. 1250-1300

Abstract: Studies of the commercial history of the Middle Ages usually analyze trade connections between countries and city-states, or focus on religious or foreign groups such as Italians and Jews. Frequently missing from these portraits, however, is the role of women in the history of commerce. Consequently, my dissertation deploys the interpretive insights of women's history in order to paint a more comprehensive picture of the social and commercial history of medieval Mediterranean France and Spain. The vibrant economy of the thirteenth-century Catalan city of Perpignan (part of France only since the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees) produced abundant records many of which are well-preserved in the Archives Departementales des Pyrenees Orientales (ADPO) in Perpignan and the Arxiu de la Corona d'Arago in Barcelona. Most social strata of the city are represented in these documents. Local nobles, burgesses, notaries, artisans, vendors, servants, farmers and Jews are all found registering transactions in the notarial registers and pleas in the king's courts. This documentation affords a glimpse into the world of women involved in Mediterranean overseas commerce, the slave trade, land speculation and credit as well as local businesses and domestic service. Incorporating this wealth of material, I study relationships among gender, work, religion, social worth and legal independence in Perpignan, a city with inheritance customs, marriage patterns and laws broadly representative of southern France and eastern Spain. In Perpignan all children were supposed to inherit equally, couples who married often remained in their parents' household, wives were not subsumed into their husbands' legal identities and widows usually gained custody of their minor children. These factors, which were distinctive of the region, but which differed from more frequently studied regions such as northern Europe and Italy, are crucial to understanding the overall status of women in pre-industrial Europe, their legal rights and work opportunities.

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