Casas mercantiles - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:36:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Casas mercantiles - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The money changer and his wife https://historylab.es/the-money-changer-and-his-wife/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-money-changer-and-his-wife Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:26 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-cambista-y-su-mujer/ Representation of women's activities in the world of work and economy through the brush of Marinus van Reymerswale

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]]> In the new bourgeois societies, women were a fundamental support for their husbands in the task of collecting and accumulating money. They took part in the accounting of their husbands’ businesses and, in many cases, were in demand as accountants by merchant houses, accustomed as they were to the control of account books. Bourgeois women, without forgetting their role as mothers and wives, developed an economic-administrative activity acting on behalf of their husbands, but also when they were widowed or took over the inheritance of a prematurely deceased father. They handled rents and lent money in a historical phase in which money was an instrument for the accumulation of wealth.

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