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The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities

The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities

Ifft Decker, Sarah

Paperback

Series: Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755

General World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0271093315
ISBN13: 9780271093314
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Apr 30 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands examines how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped how these women lived and worked.

Sarah Ifft Decker draws on thousands of notarial contracts as well as legal codes, urban ordinances, and Hebrew responsa literature to explore the lived experiences of Jewish and Christian women in the cities of Barcelona, Girona, and Vic between 1250 and 1350. Relying on an expanded definition of women's work that includes the management of household resources as well as wage labor and artisanal production, this study highlights the crucial contributions women made both to their families and to urban economies. Christian women, Ifft Decker finds, were deeply embedded in urban economic life in ways that challenge traditional dichotomies between women in northern and Mediterranean Europe. And while Jewish women typically played a less active role than their Christian counterparts, Ifft Decker shows how, in moments of communal change and crisis, they could and did assume prominent roles in urban economies.

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