Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 3664
Author(s): Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr.
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Title : Marriage in the Mountains: The Florentine Territorial State, 1348- 1500 [the author analyzes peasant marriage patterns in three regions, one in the plains and two in the mountains; dowry prices suggest that society was less egalitarian in the mountains than in the plains; the distances between spouses suggest that the people in the mountains were much less insular than those in the plains in which a third married within their own village].

Source: Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe . Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pages 174 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1998.

2. Record Number: 574
Author(s): Olson, Sherri.
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Title : Families Have Their Fate and Periods: Varieties of Family Experience in the Pre-Industrial Village [case studies of twelve families in the village of Ellington. After 1350 there is a dramatic decrease in the number of women's names in the village records].

Source: The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis. Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Studies in Medieval Culture, 36. Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1995. Pages 409 - 448.
Year of Publication: 1995.