单项选择题

It is not often realized that women (31) a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the (32) of dowry or decimum. Admittedly, the purpose of this was to (33) her against the (34) of desertion, but in reality its (35) in the social and financial life of the time was much more important. The decimum was the wife’s (36) to receive a tenth of all her husband’s property. The wife had the right to withhold (37) , in all the (38) her husband would make. And more than just a right: the documents show that she enjoyed a real (39) of decision, equal to (40) of her husband.
The wife shared in the (41) of her husband’s personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance (42) husbands who tried to (43) their rights, and (44) they showed a fine fighting spirit. A (45) in point is that of Maria Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. (46) with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, she insisted (47) compensation. (48) being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up (49) her a piece of land from Miro’s personal inheritance. Either through the dowry or though being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herself, with a context of the family, a personal economical (50) .

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