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Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were indicted....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bolton, Brenda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
500-1500
Sozialgeschichte 500-1500.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Femmes > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
HISTORY > Medieval.
Social history > Medieval.
Women > Middle Ages.
Frau
Vrouwen.
Middeleeuwen.
Femmes > Moyen âge.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Land, family and women in Continental Europe, 701-1200 / David Herlihy
  • Infanticide in the early middle ages / Emily Coleman
  • Women in reconquest Castile: the Fueros of Sepulveda nad Cuenca / Heath Dillard
  • Marriage and divorce in the Frankish Kingdom / Jo-Ann McNamara and Suzanne F. Wemple
  • The female felon in fourteenth-century England / Barbara A. Ananawalt
  • Mulieres Sanctae / Brenda M. Bolton
  • Widow and ward: the feudal law of child custody in medieval England / Sue Sheridan Walker
  • Dowries and kinsmen in early Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki
  • Women in charter and statue law: Medieval Ragusa/Dubrovnik / Susan Mosher Stuard.

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