The Conversation has an interesting online article about the role played in late medieval Vienna by women religious as fining bodies for annuities and other financial loans. I had heard the author speak to an online seminar and was pleased to have a written summary of her research. I do not know how widespread this practice was but it was clearly part of Viennese economic and social life.
The article can be seen at Before banks, nuns lent money: how convents helped power medieval Vienna’s economy
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