Medieval women and urban justice

Phipps, Teresa

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“…), women only counted for between 15 and 17 per cent of all debt litigation in the borough court of Nottingham, with a similar proportion of female debt litigants being present in Winchester (12-16 per cent) and with a lower participation rate in Chester (7 per cent) at the same time. 19 Chris Briggs similarly argued that women, both married and single, in rural communities had little direct access to credit and that this limited their commercial activities. 20 However, the lower-value debt transactions pursued in borough courtsgenerally used to fund local retail commerce -were intrinsically different to the high-value credit transactions enrolled in staple courts.…”

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High Finance: Women And Staple Credit in England, 1353-1532

Goddard¹

2018

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This article examines women as lenders and borrowers in high-value, generally wholesale and domestic commercial credit transactions in later medieval England.As is now well known, credit was widely available throughout later medieval society and was central to all medieval business. All trade depended upon credit -the deferred part-payment for goods sold or advances for future delivery of goods. The article therefore explores the level of female participation in high-value debt transactions and it considers the important question of the sources of capital for female lenders. It also investigates the role of women in the credit market in terms of credit worthiness and reputation and finally examines the impact of global forces, such as demographic crisis, bullion famine, and severe economic recession, upon the patterns of female lending and borrowing in later medieval England. In order to answer these questions, the article analyses the debts enrolled by women in English statute staple courts between 1353 and 1532.

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High Finance: Women And Staple Credit in England, 1353-1532

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2018

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Women, town councils, and the organisation of work in Bilbao and Antwerp: a north-south comparison (1400–1560)

Vandeweerdt

2021

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In this article, I compare women's work opportunities in Bilbao, in northern Castile, and Antwerp, in the Low Countries, from 1400 to 1560. I argue that the different organisation of work in the two towns had a great influence on women's economic opportunities. Whereas women in Antwerp often worked alongside other members of their household because of the town's dominant craft guilds, Bilbao's informal trades were open to women on their own, independent of their husband or another male relative. As a result, women in Bilbao are more visible in the sources and were able to exert more influence on the town council.

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Medieval women and urban justice

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High Finance: Women And Staple Credit in England, 1353-1532

High Finance: Women And Staple Credit in England, 1353-1532

Women, town councils, and the organisation of work in Bilbao and Antwerp: a north-south comparison (1400–1560)

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