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WOMEN, DOWRIES
AND AGENCY

MARRIAGE IN FIFTEENTH
CENTURY VALENCIA

Dana Wessell Lightfoot

Manchester University Press

Manchester and New York

distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Copyright Dana Wessell Lightfoot 2013

The right of Dana Wessell Lightfoot to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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First published 2013

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To Milli Wessell, Eryka Wessell
and Doris Wessell

Contents

During the completion of this book, I was fortunate to have the support of an amazing group of advisers, colleagues, family and friends. First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr Mark Meyerson and Dr Barbara Todd whose guidance over the years has helped me to become a better historian. From the University of Toronto, I would also like to thank Dr Nick Terpstra, Dr Jill Ross and Dr Natalie Zemon Davis. My research in Valencia was conducted with the help of the staff at the Archivo del Reino de Valencia and the Archivo de Protocolos del Patriarca de Valencia. I am grateful for their aid in searching out the numerous documents on which this book is based.

Portions of this book have appeared in the following articles: Family Interests? Womens Power: The Absence of Family in Dowry Restitution Cases in Fifteenth-Century Valencia, Womens History Review, 15(4) (), pp. 333353; and The Power to Divide? Germana Marriage Contracts in Early Fifteenth-Century Valencia, in Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray (eds), Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (c.13001800) (New York: Routledge), pp. 109121.

This book was funded in part by a University Research Initiative Grant from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I would also like to acknowledge the support of my former colleagues at UTEP, especially Cheryl Martin, Sandy McGee Deutsch, Yolanda Leyva and Julia Schiavone Camacho. While I was at UTEP, I was a member of a cross-discipline chapter reading group and am thankful for all the comments on my work provided by Joshua Fan, Adam Arenson, Matt Desing, Keith Erekson and Lee Ann Westman. In my new position at the University of Northern British Columbia, I am grateful for the support of my colleagues Jacqueline Holler, Jonathan Swainger and Ted Binnema.

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