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In early modern Europe, women were highly active in retail trade in all cities: they sold the produce of their own plots of land or the fish freshly caught by their husbands; they traded in used goods or as itinerant or semi-permanent traders, a vital activity in urban economies. Specific female organisations of retailers existed in many European cities. In this area too, institutional obstacles could make trade difficult for women, but, invoking everybody’s right to survival, the authorities were also willing to turn a blind eye when women carried out activities that were beyond legality.
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ASVE: Arti (Venice State Archives: Guilds archives), b. 314, reg. Capitoli e parti 1508–1608, c.n.n., 28 ottobre 1525; reg. Parti 1564–1591, c. 31, 107v.
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ASVE Arti (Venice State Archives: Guilds archives), b. 397, reg. 28.
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Bellavitis, A. (2018). In the Market Place. In: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3_16
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