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Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town

Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims... Al-Masaq, Vol. 21, No. 3, December 2009 Book Reviews Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town REBECCA LYNN WINER, 2006 Aldershot: Ashgate 276 pp. £60.00 (hardback) ISBN 0754608042 This study of the Christian, Jewish and enslaved Muslim women of thirteenth- century Perpignan, a major commercial centre in this period, marks an important contribution to our understanding of the diverse roles and statuses of women in the medieval Mediterranean. Winer assesses the extent of women’s economic empowerment, and their agency within the family, by analysing notarial registers (protocols) – an exceptional set of these sources survives for thirteenth- century Perpignan – wills, legal cases and civil codes. In particular, she focuses on women’s roles as daughters, wives, mothers, widows and servants/slaves, skilfully interpreting the data she has derived from her often difficult source material. The introduction presents a feminist perspective, suggesting that what follows will be more sympathetic towards women than men. Winer states that ‘‘... women were dominated by a gender system that was built by and for men’’ (p. 11), and refers (at the beginning of Chapter 2) to ‘‘... the inheritance and marriage customs created by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town

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Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town

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Al-Masaq, Vol. 21, No. 3, December 2009 Book Reviews Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town REBECCA LYNN WINER, 2006 Aldershot: Ashgate 276 pp. £60.00 (hardback) ISBN 0754608042 This study of the Christian, Jewish and enslaved Muslim women of thirteenth- century Perpignan, a major commercial centre in this period, marks an important contribution to our understanding of the diverse roles and...
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Al-Masaq, Vol. 21, No. 3, December 2009 Book Reviews Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town REBECCA LYNN WINER, 2006 Aldershot: Ashgate 276 pp. £60.00 (hardback) ISBN 0754608042 This study of the Christian, Jewish and enslaved Muslim women of thirteenth- century Perpignan, a major commercial centre in this period, marks an important contribution to our understanding of the diverse roles and statuses of women in the medieval Mediterranean. Winer assesses the extent of women’s economic empowerment, and their agency within the family, by analysing notarial registers (protocols) – an exceptional set of these sources survives for thirteenth- century Perpignan – wills, legal cases and civil codes. In particular, she focuses on women’s roles as daughters, wives, mothers, widows and servants/slaves, skilfully interpreting the data she has derived from her often difficult source material. The introduction presents a feminist perspective, suggesting that what follows will be more sympathetic towards women than men. Winer states that ‘‘... women were dominated by a gender system that was built by and for men’’ (p. 11), and refers (at the beginning of Chapter 2) to ‘‘... the inheritance and marriage customs created by

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