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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Inheritance, property and marriage in medieval Norway / Lars Ivar Hansen
  • Spousal disputes, the marital property system, and the law in later medieval Sweden / Mia Korpiola
  • When two worlds collide : marriage and the law in medieval Ireland / Gillian Kenny
  • Married women, crime and the courts in late medieval Wales / Lizabeth Johnson
  • Peasant women, agency and status in late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England : some reconsiderations / Miriam Müller
  • London's married women, debt litigation and coverture in the Court of Common Pleas / Matthew Frank Stevens
  • Married women, contracts and coverture in late medieval England / Cordelia Beattie
  • Property, family and partnership : married women and legal capability in late medieval Ghent / Shennan Hutton
  • "For his interest"? : Women, debt and coverture in early modern Scotland / Cathryn Spence
  • The worth of married women witnesses in the English Church courts, 1550-1730 / Alexandra Shepard
  • Married women, work and the law : evidence from early modern Germany / Sheilagh Ogilvie.

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