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1 online resource (xv, 322 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford University Press paperback
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Oxford University Press paperback.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index. |
Summary |
In this book, Judith Bennett addresses the gap in our knowledge of medieval country women by examining how their lives differed from those of rural men. Drawing on her study of an English manor in the early-fourteenth century, she finds that rural women were severely restricted in their public roles and rights primarily because of their household status as dependents of their husbands, rather than because of a notion of female inferiority. Adolescent women and widows, by virtue of their unmarried status, enjoyed greater legal and public freedom than did their married counterparts. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- England -- History -- Case studies.
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Women. |
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England. |
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History. |
Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Case studies.
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Sex role -- England -- History -- Case studies.
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Sex role. |
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England -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.
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Rural conditions. |
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England -- Rural conditions. |
Chronological Term |
500 - 1500 |
Indexed Term |
Rural regions Women Social conditions History, 1154-1399 |
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England |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bennett, Judith M. Women in the medieval English countryside. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987 (DLC) 86005122 |
ISBN |
1423735994 (electronic book) |
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9781423735991 (electronic book) |
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9780195040944 (Cloth) |
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0195040945 (Cloth) |
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1280439491 |
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9781280439490 |
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0195040945 (alkaline paper) |
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0195045610 (paperback) |
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9780195045611 (paperback) |
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