"Half as Much as a Man" ? Gender Ideology and Practice in Medieval Flanders Ellen E. Kittell
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ArticleLanguage: English Publication details: 2011; 2011Description: [M2LTP_COVER]
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Journal of Women's History P. 132-155 vol. 23 , no. 1Summary: In his account of 18 September 1379, the bailiff of the Vier Ambachten, a rural circumscription in Flanders, noted that a woman was to be fined "only half as much as a man." This assertion "of half value," however, was the first of its kind. An examination of early fourteenth-century Flemish accounts indicates that the "half-value" principle never found expression in practice. Over the course of the fourteenth century, changes took place in both social and economic practices that correlated with a growing constriction of female economic and social agency. The present argument is in line with other scholarship that makes claims for such a constriction within the late-medieval and early-modern period.
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In his account of 18 September 1379, the bailiff of the Vier Ambachten, a rural circumscription in Flanders, noted that a woman was to be fined "only half as much as a man." This assertion "of half value," however, was the first of its kind. An examination of early fourteenth-century Flemish accounts indicates that the "half-value" principle never found expression in practice. Over the course of the fourteenth century, changes took place in both social and economic practices that correlated with a growing constriction of female economic and social agency. The present argument is in line with other scholarship that makes claims for such a constriction within the late-medieval and early-modern period.
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