Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2263
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Jacob , Robert.
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  • Title: Mobilité sociale et coutumes familiales dans la France du nord et dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux [The author discusses broad trends in family strategies for marriage and inheritance. Jacob concludes that in the Low Countries conditions favored the natal family's interests over the marital couple in conserving wealth and social position. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Marriage and Social Mobility in the Late Middle Ages/Marriage et mobilité sociale au bas moyen-âge. Handelingen van het colloquieum gehouden te Gent op 18 april 1988.  Edited by W. PrevenierStudia Historica Gandensia.  Department of History of the Arts Faculty of the University of Gent, 1992.  Pages 50 - 59. Second printing, revised and corrected by the editor
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Economics Family Inheritance Marriage Partilineage Social Mobility
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  • Geographic Area: France;Low Countries
  • Century: 11- 12- 13- 14- 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: French
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available