From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris: Gender, Economy, and Law
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Full Title

From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris: Gender, Economy, and Law
Author(s)

Lanza, Janine M, Professor
Edition
ISBN

9781409479918, 9780754656432
Publisher

Routledge
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows’ lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period.

Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women’s participation in the world of work

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