Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent

Hutton, Shennan

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“…In fourteenth-century Ghent, a town in the county of Flanders, the wheat trade was entirely in masculine hands and women were prohibited from buying or selling in the Corn Market. 39 The town council in Mechelen, a town in Brabant, forbade the wives of wheat sellers to sell grain. 40 There were no such restrictions in Bilbao.…”

Section: Antwerp and Bilbao: Commercial Towns Different Market Institutionsmentioning

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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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Section: Antwerp and Bilbao: Commercial Towns Different Market Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Vandeweerdt

2021

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“…Echtgenotes van beenhouwers en weduwen konden er dus niet deelnemen aan de vleeshandel. 36 Enkel in Amiens komt de formulering 'bouchiers ne bouchiere' voor. Het ambacht was er niet gesloten, noch erfelijk.…”

Section: Het Vleeshouwersambacht In Europaunclassified

‘Van den vleeschouweren oft pensvrouwen’* De economische mogelijkheden voor vrouwen in het Leuvense vleeshouwersambacht in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw

Vandeweerdt¹

2018

Tijdschrift Voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

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This article examines women's agency in the butcher's guild in Leuven during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. An analysis of urban ordinances demonstrates that the corporation allowed women of various marital status to work in the trade. Mar ried women acted frequently as active substitutes of their husbands or as part of a family production unit. Unmarried women, most often widows, were allowed to perform certain tasks independently. This contrasts with findings in earlier studies about gendering in butchers' guilds in other towns. I argue that the changing hered itary character of the corporation influenced women's agency in the trade. * Dit artikel is gebaseerd op mijn onuitgegeven masterproef (ku Leuven 2016). Mijn dank gaat uit naar mijn promotor prof. dr. Jelle Haemers, de redactie van Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiede nis-in het bijzonder Jessica Dijkman-en de anonieme referenten die hielpen bij de verwezenlijking van deze tekst. 1 Stadsarchief Leuven (verder sal), Oud Archief (verder oa), inv. nr. 1527, Ordonnances et règlements de la ville de Louvain (verder 1527), 1593. Deze ordonnantie is wellicht een kopie van een ambachtsstatuut dat de vleeshouwers in 1518 werd toegekend. De stadsraad beschreef die 'ambachtsrolle' eerder al in een ordonnantie uit 1566. sal, oa, inv. nr. 4748, Actes portant défense aux veuves des bouchers d'abattre du bétail ou de vendre de la viande dans les Halles aux viandes (verder 4748), 1566.

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“…81 Otherwise, women could not be involved in deals (ende els negheene vrouwe). 82 Despite the restrictive intent, 15 stones of wool (equal to 39 kilos or 90 pounds) was enough to make half of a full cloth and to provide seven spinners with a week's employment. This amount is larger than any of the four individual wool lots in the Van Vinderhoute inventory.…”

Section: Urban Historymentioning

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Organizing specialized production: gender in the medieval Flemish wool cloth industry (c. 1250–1384)

Hutton

2017

Urban History

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ABSTRACT:In the earliest centuries of the Flemish wool cloth industry, the lower-level, preparatory stage of wool processing and spinning was organized by a form of ‘putting-out’ significantly different from later forms in the industry. It took place in and around the cities or smaller drapery centres rather than in rural areas, and women were prominent as middle-level organizers, managers and small entrepreneurs, despite their marginal status in or exclusion from the craft guilds. Using small bits of evidence from Flemish regulations and contracts from the earliest documented period of cloth production, this article analyses lower-level organization through the lens of gender. It shows that the production of yarn was organized by a broad middling level of drapers and small marketsellers, who were women, men and husbands and wives working together. The gendered lens distinguishes this middle level, which was indispensable to the efficient production of wool cloth in medieval Flanders.

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Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent

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

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

‘Van den vleeschouweren oft pensvrouwen’* De economische mogelijkheden voor vrouwen in het Leuvense vleeshouwersambacht in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw

Organizing specialized production: gender in the medieval Flemish wool cloth industry (c. 1250–1384)

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