| Description |
xiii, 169 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Women, power and protection in tenth- and eleventh-century England / Victoria Thompson -- Unfamiliar territory: women, land and law in Occitania, 1130-1250 / Jennifer Smith -- A room of one's own? the legal evidence for the residential arrangements of women without husbands in late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century York / Cordelia Beattie -- Women, testamentary discourse and life-writing in later medieval England / Katherine J. Lewis -- A few home truths: the medieval mother as guardian in romance and law / Nol͡ James Menuge -- A matter of consent: Middle English romance and the law of Raptus / Corinne Saunders -- Written on the body: reading rape from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries / Kim M. Phillips -- '[S]he will...protect and defend her rights boldly by law and reason...': women's knowledge of Common Law and Equity Courts in late-medieval England / Emma Hawkes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Law, Medieval.
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Law -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe.
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Medieval literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Menuge, Noël James.
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| ISBN |
0851157750 hardback acid-free paper |
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