The measure of woman : law and female identity in the crown of Aragon /

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Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's li...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelleher, Marie A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
James > II, > King of Aragon, > approximately 1264-1327.
James > II, > King of Aragon, > ca. 1264-1327.
James > II, > King of Aragon, > approximately 1264-1327
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Spain > History.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Spain
"Multi-User"
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Drawing boundaries : women in the legal landscape in the age of Jaume II
  • The power to hold : women and property
  • Crimes of passion : sexual transgression and the legal taxonomy of women
  • Gender and violence.

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