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Women under Venetian Colonial Rule in the Early Renaissance: Observations on Their Economic Activities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sally McKee
Sally McKee*
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Arizona State University
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Abstract

This article presents previously unpublished data from the Archives of the Duke of Candia (Crete) pertaining to the economic activities of Greek, Latin, and Jewish women in the Venetian colony of the fourteenth century. While trends over time are difficult to discern in the notarial registers examined for this study, they are none the less suggestive of a lively participation by women in moneylending, investment, and production, as well as in the local distribution of the island's products.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 34 - 67
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1998

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Footnotes

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I am grateful to the Faculty Development Board of the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, which generously sponsored the research for this article, an earlier version of which was presented at the Twentieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in October of 1994. I would also like to thank the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Dumbarton Oaks for their generous support of the research for this study.

Abbreviations to be used: ASV = Archivio di Stato di Venezia; ADC = Archivio di Duca di Candia; NDC = Notai di Candia; not. = Notary. Interlineations in the Latin text are signaled by the use of “/ /”.

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