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Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women´s economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized.

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The Urban Context Activity and Continuity: Patterns of Women´s Economic Participation ´Her and All Her Property´: Gender and Property Transactions Webs of Credit and Circulation of Wealth Married Partners and Single Women as Producers and Sellers The Changing Fortunes of the Burgher and Patrimonial Constructions

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SHENNAN HUTTON Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.

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