Download or read book Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent written by S. Hutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized.