Married Women in Thirteenth-century England
Author | : Margaret Ruth Kittel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Common law marriage |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Margaret Ruth Kittel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Common law marriage |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linda E Mitchell |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2019-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781349633715 |
Author | : Louise J. Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0861933346 |
Written by Louise J. Wilkinson, this book offers a regional study of women in 13th-century England, making pioneering use of charters, chronicles, government records & some of the earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender, status & life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in Lincolnshire.
Author | : Linda E. Mitchell |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2003-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312292973 |
Although numerous general studies of medieval women and a number of biographies of medieval queens have appeared in recent years, there have been comparatively few studies that combine biographical and prosopographical methodologies in order to develop portraits of specific women as case studies of the different life experiences of medieval women. The individual chapters can be read as separate histories of their specific subjects as well as case studies which together provide a coherent picture of the medieval English noblewoman.
Author | : Mrs Joan Perkin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134985630 |
The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented the onerous limitations of the law, while middle-class women sought through reform to change their legal status. For working-class women, such legal changes were irrelevant, but they too found ways to ameliorate their position. Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior or subservient to men.
Author | : John Carmi Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Eleanor of Castile thus becomes a study in the construction of the imagery of one woman's power and her society's perception of that imagery. Parsons also considers the evolution of the queen's posthumous legend as her reputation was fashioned and refashioned in response to changing opinions on women and power.
Author | : Tim Stretton |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0773590145 |
Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).
Author | : Cordelia Beattie |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843838338 |
Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.
Author | : Sharon Bennett Connolly |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2020-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526745267 |
An innovative take on Magna Carta history that examines the impact and influence of women. 39. No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was in response to the appalling imprisonment and starvation of Matilda de Braose, the wife of one of King John’s barons. Matilda was not the only woman who influenced, or was influenced by, the 1215 Charter of Liberties, now known as Magna Carta. Women from many of the great families of England were affected by the far-reaching legacy of Magna Carta, from their experiences in the civil war and as hostages, to calling on its use to protect their property and rights as widows. Ladies of Magna Carta looks into the relationships—through marriage and blood—of the various noble families and how they were affected by the Barons’ Wars, Magna Carta, and its aftermath—the bonds that were formed and those that were broken. Including the royal families of England and Scotland, the Marshals, the Warennes, the Braoses, and more, Ladies of Magna Carta focuses on the roles played by the women of the great families whose influences and experiences have reached far beyond the thirteenth century.
Author | : Jennifer Ward |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826419852 |
Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be reconstructed with accuracy from a variety of sources. We know more about a far smaller number of elite women, including queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Margaret of Anjou; noblewomen, whose characters and attitudes can be sensed directly or indirectly; and a variety of religious women. Literary sources help flesh out real attitudes, such as those of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Jennifer Ward shows the life-cycle of medieval women, from birth, via marriage and child-rearing, to widowhood and death. She also brings out the slow changes in the position of women over a millennium.