Late medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of
Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal
financial affairs of its citizens -- wills, marriage agreements,
business contracts, and records of court disputes over property
rights of all kinds.
Based on extensive research in this archive. The Marriage
Exchange reveals how these documents were produced in a
centuries-long effort to regulate -- and ultimately to redefine --
property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation
was the shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one
based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her
husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply
held it for his family or offspring. Although Martha C. Howell
argues that the legal reform had profound implications for both the
social and gender order, she doesn't portray the reform as the
triumph of one social group's interests or as a contest between men
and women. Instead, she treats the reform as the record of a more
complex economic, social, and cultural history in which the
meanings of property, social place, and gender were themselves
transformed.
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