Mother and Sons, Inc.
Автор: Kathryn L. Reyerson
Год издания: 0000
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's business; to preserve that business until they were ready to take over; and to look after her own financial well-being. Examining the visible trail Martha left in Montpellier's notarial registers and other records, Kathryn L. Reyerson reveals a wealth of information about her activities, particularly in the area of business, commerce, and real estate. From these formal, contractual documents, Reyerson gleans something of Martha's personality and reconstructs what she may have done, and a good deal of what she actually did, in her various roles of daughter, wife, mother, and widow. Mother and Sons, Inc. demonstrates that while women were hardly equal to men in the fourteenth century, under the right conditions afforded by wealth and the status of widowhood, they could do and did more than many have thought. Within the space of twenty years, Martha developed a complex real estate fortune, enlarged a cloth manufacturing business and trading venture, and provided for the support and education of her sons. Just how the widow Martha maneuvered within the legal constraints of her social, economic, and personal status forms the heart of the book's investigation. Situating Martha's story within the context of Montpellier and medieval Europe more broadly, Reyerson's microhistorical approach illuminates the opportunities and the limits of what was possible for elite mercantile women in the urban setting in which Martha lived.
Бабушка, Grand-mere, Grandmother… Воспоминания внуков и внучек о бабушках, знаменитых и не очень, с винтажными фотографиями XIX-XX веков
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Героини книги – бабушки, наши ангелы-хранители. Судьба каждой из них неповторима, а истории любви достойны пера романиста. Наряду со свидетельствами мемуаристов XIX века в книге представлены воспоминания наших современников. Авторов объединяет «память сердца» и благодарность к тем, кто сумел предать внукам творческое отношение к жизни, сострадание к людям, любовь к искусству и природе.
Husband hunting, or The mother and daughters. Vol. 1
Автор: Группа авторов
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Husband hunting, or The mother and daughters : a tale of fashionable life : in 3 vol. Vol. 1».
Super Queen-Mother. Book I. The Last Hope
Автор: Evgeniy Shmigirilov
Год издания:
Summer vacation for Julia suddenly interrupted. When bathing in the sea it drags on the bottom of the unknown force, the Earth Keepers. They tell Julia that the sixth Earth civilization may soon die. Fighters previous civilizations were destroyed. Earth Keepers found the cause of the lesions: men are logical, and therefore easy to calculate… This time the fighter will be a woman. Woman nature has entrusted the birth of the people, she them and protect… the Super Queen-Mother.
Super Queen-Mother. Book II. Life or Death
Автор: Evgeniy Shmigirilov
Год издания:
The received signal “fight on” has rallied all the earthlings around Super Queen-Mother. She went into the match with confidence. The battle lasted a long time…
Super Queen-Mother. Книга I. Последняя надежда
Автор: Евгений Шмигирилов
Год издания:
Летний отдых для Джулии неожиданно прерывается. При купании в море ее утаскивает на дно неизвестная сила, к Хранителям Земли. Они сообщают Джулии, что шестая цивилизация Земли может скоро погибнуть. Только одна может всех спасти, потому что она – Super Queen-Mother – Хозяйка Земли. Бойцы предыдущих цивилизаций были уничтожены: мужчины логичны, а значит – легко просчитываемы… В этот раз бойцом будет женщина. Женщине природа доверила рождение людей, ей их и защищать…