Wife And Widow In Medieval England
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Wife and Widow in Medieval England
Author | : Sue Sheridan Walker |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 0472104152 |
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Examines the role of women in medieval law and society
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author | : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317882763 |
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This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.
Medieval Gentlewoman
Author | : Ffiona Swabey |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415925118 |
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"Through an examination of Alice's "Household Book," and using other extant contemporary sources, the author has been able to illuminate the experiences of medieval women in general. The resulting work provides a vivid picture of life in the medieval household, examining marriage and widowhood, daily household and estate management, hospitality and entertainment, education, patronage, religious concerns and the private and public roles of medieval women of the estate-owning class."--BOOK JACKET.
Daughters Wives and Widows After the Black Death
Author | : Mavis E. Mate |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0851155340 |
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Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
Marriage in Medieval England
Author | : Conor McCarthy |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1843831023 |
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A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary. It draws particular attention to local English legislation and practice, and offers some new readings of medieval English literary texts, including Beowulf, the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters. Focusing on a number of key themes important across the period, individual chapters discuss the themes of consent, property, alliance, love, sex, family, divorce and widowhood. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.
Widows in Anglo Saxon and Medieval Britain
Author | : Marie-Françoise Alamichel |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 3039114042 |
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This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in Medieval Britain based on literary and historical sources from the seventh to the 15th centuries. It devotes much attention to family structures and to the legal and social aspects of inheritance.
Stolen Women in Medieval England
Author | : Caroline Dunn |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139789417 |
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This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls.
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Author | : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : OCLC:1263746328 |
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