This ebook illuminates the connections and interplay between ladies and among men and women throughout the medieval interval. to do that, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses particularly at the studies of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was once a true property multi-millionaire and a buyer of philanthropic associations that authorised reduce strata girls to outlive and thrive in a mature city economic system of the interval ahead of 1350. significantly, Montpellier was once a wide city heart in southern France. Linkages stretched horizontally and vertically during this powerful city atmosphere, mitigating the constraints of patriarchy and the limitations of gender. utilizing the tale of Agnes de Bossones as a automobile to bigger discussions approximately gender, this ebook highlights the indisputable effect that networks had on women’s mobility and navigation inside of a restrictive medieval society.
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