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Women in the medieval English countryside : gender and household in Brigstock before the plague /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1987.
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| Colección: | Oxford University Press paperback
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 322 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423735994 9781423735991 9780195040944 0195040945 1280439491 9781280439490 0198021135 9780198021131 1601296053 9781601296054 |