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Rich, Anna, "Able and available: Jewish women in medieval Barcelona and their economic activities", Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 6/1 (2014), 71-86.
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- This article explores the involvement of Jewish women in Barcelona's business and economic affairs in the period 1348–91 through notarial records. The study reveals the tension between their self-determination and their dependence on male relatives and the patriarchal community to which they belonged. Women's involvement in three fields – moneylending, artisanal activities, and wet-nursing – will be examined. These particular roles reveal the different positions that women occupied in Jewish society, their social differences, their expectations, and the expectations placed upon them by their kin and community. The article investigates the influence of Christian society on economic trends as well as on specific professions amongst the Jews of Barcelona. It traces how this influence affected Jewish women in particular ways, giving them an enhanced profile at certain times. In summary, these women were able to prove their skills and value within the patriarchal structure – an environment in which they were usually bound to silence.
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- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2014.886776
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