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This text examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives - marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed.

392.4/.5 <460> --- Marriage --- -Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- 392.4/.5 <460> Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Spanje --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Spanje --- History -&delete& --- 15th century --- -392.4/.5 <460> Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Spanje --- History --- -15th century --- Married life --- Wives --- Social conditions. --- Spouses --- Women --- Housewives --- Married women --- -History

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"Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways in which women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula"--

Women --- Women --- Communities --- History --- History --- History --- Iberian Peninsula --- Social conditions.