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Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England / Alexandra Shepard
Review Date: 18 February 2016
At the heart of this book is a surprisingly straightforward methodology: an examination of responses given by witnesses in church court cases to two questions designed to probe their reliability: what were they 'worth'? (that is, the value of their moveable goods with all their debts paid); and how did they maintain themselves? This focus yields an enormous dataset of 13,686 witness statements from between 1550…
Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857 / Maria Ågren
Review Date: 01 October 2010
In The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), Friedrich Engels posited a fundamental relationship between women’s property rights, on the one hand, and changes in the social and political spheres, on the other.