In the later Middle Ages, a small number of women engaged in long-distance trade. In this @JBritishStudies piece, R. Goddard uses debt and customs records to quantify women’s penetration into this male-dominated trade. #womenshistorymonth #twitterstorians
RT @JBritishStudies: In "Female Merchants?," Richard Goddard examines English women engaged in wholesale long-distance trade in the later M…
In "Female Merchants?," Richard Goddard examines English women engaged in wholesale long-distance trade in the later Middle Ages, quantifying women's involvement in that trade, and the ways it was shaped and constrained by economic and patriarchal forces.