Married women and the law in premodern northwest Europe /

There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beattie, Cordelia (Editor ), Stevens, Matthew Frank (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2013.
Colección:Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 8.
Temas:
To 1500
Women > History.
Women > Social conditions.
Married women > Europe, Northern > Social conditions.
Married women > Europe, Northern > History > To 1500.
Married women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Europe, Northern > History > To 1500.
Femmes > Histoire.
Femmes > Conditions sociales.
Femmes mariées > Europe septentrionale > Conditions sociales.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Domestic Partner Abuse.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Married women.
Married women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Married women > Social conditions.
Women.
Northern Europe.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782041146
1782041141

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