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Author : Caroline Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781107017009
The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.
Author : Gwen Seabourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317118275
The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the imprisoned woman, usually a noblewoman, has carried through into the quasi-medieval world of the fairy and folk tale, in which the 'maiden in the tower' is one of the archetypes. Yet the confinement of women outside of the judicial system was not simply a fiction in the medieval period. Men too were imprisoned without trial and sometimes on mere suspicion of an offence, yet evidence suggests that there were important differences in the circumstances under which men and women were incarcerated, and in their roles in relation to non-judicial captivity. This study of the confinement of women highlights the disparity in regulation concerning male and female imprisonment in the middle ages, and gives a useful perspective on the nature of medieval law, its scope and limitations, and its interaction with royal power and prerogative. Looking at England from 1170 to 1509, the book discusses: the situations in which women might be imprisoned without formal accusation of trial; how social status, national allegiance and stage of life affected the chances of imprisonment; the relevant legal rules and norms; the extent to which legal and constitutional developments in medieval England affected women's amenability to confinement; what can be known of the experiences of women so incarcerated; and how women were involved in situations of non-judicial imprisonment, aside from themselves being prisoners.
Author : W. Mark Ormrod
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030452209
This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared there in person to prosecute cases or make political demands. It explores the positions of women of varying rank, from queens to peasants, vis-à-vis this male institution, where they very occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented by written petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the official records of parliament reveals that there were a number of issues on which women consistently pressed for changes in the law and its administration, and where the Commons and the Crown either championed or refused to support reform. Such is the concentration of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these may justifiably be termed ‘women’s issues’ in the medieval Parliament.
Author : Bronach Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320029
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.
Author : Gwen Seabourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134775972
This book examines the view of women held by medieval common lawyers and legislators, and considers medieval women’s treatment by and participation in the processes of the common law. Surveying a wide range of points of contact between women and the common law, from their appearance (or not) in statutes, through their participation (or not) as witnesses, to their treatment as complainants or defendants, it argues for closer consideration of women within the standard narratives of classical legal history, and for re-examination of some previous conclusions on the relationship between women and the common law. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in legal history, gender studies and the history of women.
Author : Caroline Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1009457012
Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England examines female attendants who served queens and aristocratic women during the late medieval period. Using a unique set of primary source based statistics, Caroline Dunn reveals that the lady-in-waiting was far more than a pretty girl sewing in the queen's chamber while seeking to catch the eye of an eligible bachelor. Ladies-in-waiting witnessed major historical events of the era and were sophisticated players who earned significant rewards. They had both family and personal interests to advance - through employment they linked kin and court, and through marriage they built bridges between families. Whether royal or aristocratic, ladies-in-waiting worked within gendered spaces, building female-dominated social networks, while also operating within a masculine milieu that offered courtiers of both sexes access to power. Working from a range of sources wider than the subjective anecdote, Dunn presents the first scholarly treatment of medieval English ladies-in-waiting.
Author : Jennifer C. Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216071549
Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of medieval women and gender, this book provides a comprehensive depiction of women's lives in the 14th and 15th centuries. The late medieval period in England was one rich with opportunities for women, who played fundamental roles in family businesses as well as in the peasant community and economy, and who wrote letters, created autobiographies, and documented their spiritual journeys. Their lives fit into a pattern of seasonal celebrations and rituals shaped, for the majority of women, by work, marriage, and motherhood. The text further considers status distinctions, then shifts to experiences that affected all women, such as the ritual year, disease, food and drink, sex or celibacy, and religion. By providing an overview of the history of English women and gender in the 14th and 15th centuries, the book provides a background suitable for students as well as for academics beginning work in this field.
Author : Karen Jones
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 184383216X
A large proportion of late medieval people, were accused of some kind of misdemeanour. This book studies gender and crime in late medieval England. It shows how charges against women differed from those against men, and how assumptions and fears about masculinity and femininity were reflected and reinforced by the local courts.
Author : Andrea Hopkins, Ph.D.
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823939928
Explores the roles played by women of various classes in medieval society, in the nobility, in the church, and in daily life and work.
Author : Michelle M. Sauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441186942
Gender in Medieval Culture provides a detailed examination of medieval society's views on both gender and sexuality, and shows how they are inextricably linked. Sex roles were clearly defined in the medieval world although there were exceptions to the rules, and this book examines both the commonplace world view and the exceptions to it. The volume looks not only at the social and economic considerations of gender but also the religious and legal implications, arguing that both ecclesiastical and secular laws governed behaviour. The book covers key topics, including femininity and masculinity and how medieval society constructed these terms; sexuality and sex; transgressive sexualities such as homosexuality, adultery and chastity; and the gendered body of Christ, including the idea of Jesus as mother and affective spirituality. Using a clear chapter structure for easy navigation and categorisation, as well as a glossary of terms, the book will be a vital resource for students of medieval history.
Author : Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498791
Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.
Author : Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195352306
Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman. This important work will be of interest to scholars and students of history, women's studies, and the history of sexuality.
Author : Helen M. Jewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004007697
Studies the roles and lives of different classes of women in medieval England. After a background chapter on women before 1100, coverage includes women in the countryside, women in urban communities, women of the landholding class, and women and religion, with details in areas such as education, crime, prostitution, marriage, and work. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Sarah Baechle,Carissa M. Harris,Elizaveta Strakhov
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271093048
Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency, and survivors’ speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking about sexual violence today. In addition to embodying the possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles. The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically tailored to the undergraduate classroom. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.
Author : Elise Wang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192698254
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about the law rarely wrote about felony. Its definition was left to its practice--from investigation to conviction--and that procedure fell to local communities who were generally untrained in the law. Left with many practical and ethical questions and few legal answers, they turned to cultural ones, archived in sermons they had heard, plays they had seen, and poetry they knew. This book reads the documents of criminal procedure--coroners' reports, plea rolls, and gaol delivery records--alongside literary scenes of investigation, interrogation, and witnessing to tell a new intellectual history of criminal procedure's beginnings. The chapters of The Making of Felony Procedure guide the reader through the steps of a felony prosecution, from act to conviction, examining the questions local communities faced at each step. What evidence should be prioritized in a death investigation? Should the accused consider narrative satisfaction when building his plea? What are the dangers of a witnessing system that depends so heavily on a few "oathworthy" men? What can a jury do if the accused's guilt seems partial or complex? And what if the defendant-for whatever reason--refuses to participate in this new, still--delicate system of justice? The book argues that answers they found, and the sources that informed them, created the system that became modern criminal procedure. The epilogue offers some thoughts about the resilience and incoherence of the concept of felony, from the start of the jury trial to the present day.
