Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700

AvBronach Kane

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien "The Body, Gender and Culture"

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Beskrivning

Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-01-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:"The Body, Gender and Culture"
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138662179

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi

Innehållsförteckning

Preface, Bronach Kane, Fiona Williamson; Introduction, Bronach Kane, Fiona Williamson; Chapter 1 Your Oratrice: Women’s Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, Cordelia Beattie; Chapter 2 Echoes, Whispers, Ventriloquisms: On Recovering Women’s Voices from The Court of York in the Later Middle Ages, Jeremy Goldberg; Chapter 3 Women, Memory and Agency in the Medieval English Church Courts, Bronach Kane; Chapter 4 ‘Utterly and Untruly he Hath deceived Me’: Women’s Inheritance In Late Medieval England, Rosemary Horrox; Chapter 5 ‘She Hym Fresshely Folowed and Pursued’: Women and Star Chamber in Early Tudor Wales, Deborah Youngs; Chapter 6 Women and the Hue and Cry in Late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth, Janka Rodziewicz; Chapter 7 Gender and the Control of Sacred Space in Early Modern England, Amanda Flather; Chapter 8 The Travails of Agnes Beaumont, Bernard Capp; Chapter 9 Parish Politics, Urban Spaces and Women’s Voices in Seventeenth-Century Norwich, Fiona Williamson; Chapter 10 ‘With a Sword Drawne in Her Hande’: Defending the Boundaries of Household Space in Seventeenth-Century Wales, Nicola Whyte Appendix;