Empowered or marginalized? Rural women and credit in later thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England

Continuity and Change

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-43

  Briggs, Chris ^a  

^a Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MEDIEVAL; RURAL SOCIETY; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 3442895410     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416004004928     Document Type: Article

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