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Author Bennett, Judith M.

Title Women in the medieval English countryside : gender and household in Brigstock before the plague / Judith M. Bennett.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 322 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford University Press paperback
Oxford University Press paperback.
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.
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Subject Women -- England -- History -- Case studies.
Women.
England.
History.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Case studies.
Sex role -- England -- History -- Case studies.
Sex role.
England -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.
Rural conditions.
England -- Rural conditions.
Chronological Term 500 - 1500
Indexed Term Rural regions Women Social conditions History, 1154-1399
England
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Genre/Form Case studies.
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)
9781423735991 (electronic book)
9780195040944 (Cloth)
0195040945 (Cloth)
1280439491
9781280439490
0195040945 (alkaline paper)
0195045610 (paperback)
9780195045611 (paperback)