Article: Behind the scenes in late medieval London.(The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London and Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London)(Book review)

Barbara A. Hanawalt. The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Frank Rexroth. Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London. Trans. Pamela E. Selwyn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Although they address very different subjects, these two excellent volumes overlap and resonate with one another, elegantly and extensively illuminating two crucial underexamined areas of life in late medieval London. Arguing, respectively, that capital was often transferred horizontally through women and that the upper levels of society created an image of a coherent and harmful nocturnal ...

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