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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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