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The Fruit of Her Hands - Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities (Hardcover)
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The Fruit of Her Hands - Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities (Hardcover)
Series: Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755
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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 draws on thousands
of notarial contracts as well as legal codes, urban ordinances, and
Hebrew responsa literature to explore the lived experiences of
Jewish and Christian women in the cities of Barcelona, Girona, and
Vic between 1250 and 1350. Relying on an expanded definition of
women's work that includes the management of household resources as
well as wage labor and artisanal production, this study highlights
the crucial contributions women made both to their families and to
urban economies. Christian women, Ifft Decker finds, were deeply
embedded in urban economic life in ways that challenge traditional
dichotomies between women in northern and Mediterranean Europe. And
while Jewish women typically played a less active role than their
Christian counterparts, Ifft Decker shows how, in moments of
communal change and crisis, they could and did assume prominent
roles in urban economies. Through its attention to the distinct
experiences of Jewish and Christian women, The Fruit of Her Hands
advances our understanding of Jewish acculturation in the Iberian
Peninsula and the shared experiences of women of different faiths.
It will be welcomed by specialists in gender studies and religious
studies as well as students and scholars of medieval Iberia.
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