Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου
Τίτλος:	Women and Trade from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Γερολυμάτου, Μαρία[EN] Gerolymatou, Maria
Επιμελητής έκδοσης:	Messis, Charis Meyer, Mati
Εκδότης:	Routledge
Τόπος έκδοσης:	London
Ημερομηνία:	2024
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISBN:	9781003044475
DOI:	10.4324/9781003044475-10
Περίληψη:	The development of gender studies in the last decades of the twentieth century led to increasing interest in the history of Byzantine women. The prevailing cliché is that women in Byzantium were raised to become devoted wives and mothers who would live their lives according to the Christian virtues. Relevant research explored instances of women who were patrons of monasteries and nuns, but that was only one aspect of the reality. According to literary topoi, women were secluded and uninvolved in public life, but there was a clear divergence between theory and reality. Women were often engaged in daily trade in foodstuffs in Constantinople as well as in the provinces. Although some were undoubtedly overwhelmed by male domination or were actually victims of masculine violence, others were the proprietors of successful businesses. There were women who were active in textile production either as self-employed professionals or as hired weavers and carders. Women of middle or higher social status did not personally engage in trade but might well have owned shops, have financed commercial activities, and even have launched overseas ventures. From the middle of the eleventh century, when the development of trade increased the need for credit, it is likely that well-off women found a new field of activity in offering loans for interest. By the late Byzantine period, if there ever had been any legal or social impediment to women lending money, it had been abolished.
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Τhe Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium
Σελίδες:	136-144
Θεματική Κατηγορία:	[EL] Μεσαιωνική Ελλάδα, Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία 323-1453[EN] Medieval Greece. Byzantine Empire, 323-1453
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	Women Trade Entrepreneurship Textile production Gender studies
Τοπική Κάλυψη:	Byzantine empire
Χρονική Κάλυψη:	9th-15th c.
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