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Mother and Sons, Inc. - Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier (Hardcover)
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Mother and Sons, Inc. - Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young
sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be
many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's
business; to preserve that business until they were ready to take
over; and to look after her own financial well-being. Examining the
visible trail Martha left in Montpellier's notarial registers and
other records, Kathryn L. Reyerson reveals a wealth of information
about her activities, particularly in the area of business,
commerce, and real estate. From these formal, contractual
documents, Reyerson gleans something of Martha's personality and
reconstructs what she may have done, and a good deal of what she
actually did, in her various roles of daughter, wife, mother, and
widow. Mother and Sons, Inc. demonstrates that while women were
hardly equal to men in the fourteenth century, under the right
conditions afforded by wealth and the status of widowhood, they
could do and did more than many have thought. Within the space of
twenty years, Martha developed a complex real estate fortune,
enlarged a cloth manufacturing business and trading venture, and
provided for the support and education of her sons. Just how the
widow Martha maneuvered within the legal constraints of her social,
economic, and personal status forms the heart of the book's
investigation. Situating Martha's story within the context of
Montpellier and medieval Europe more broadly, Reyerson's
microhistorical approach illuminates the opportunities and the
limits of what was possible for elite mercantile women in the urban
setting in which Martha lived.
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