Laura in her last note asks about women as donors, citing fourteenth-century
Italy where "a wife had no disposable income of her own".
In medieval Denmark, where there pictures of husband and wife as donors,
wives had disposable income of their own. In Herlev, c.1450-75, the two
women donors are named, Gyda and Kristine. As for England and France,
Eleanor of Aqutaine certainly has disposable income. I may be wrong, but I
believe that there were many wealthy women in medieval times.
Regards to all, Jim
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