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Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : England
ISBN : 0472104152
Examines the role of women in medieval law and society
Author : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882763
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.
Author : Ffiona Swabey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415925118
"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.
Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0851155340
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.
Author : Conor McCarthy
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1843831023
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.
Author : Marie-Françoise Alamichel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3039114042
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.
Author : Caroline Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139789417
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.
Author : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1263746328
Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780195311761
Introduction. Ch. 1: Daughter and Identities. Ch. 2: Education and Apprenticeship. Ch. 3: Heiresses, Dowry, and Dower. Ch. 4: The Formation of Marriage. Ch. 5: Recovery of Dower and Widows' Remarriage. Ch. 6: For Better or For Worse: The Marital Experience. Ch. 7: The Standard of Living and Women as Consumers. Ch. 8: Women as Entrepreneurs. Ch. 9: Servants, Casual Labor, and Vendors. Conclusion. Appendix I. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography
Author : Anne F. Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : England
ISBN : 1907730575
Here are ten substantial essays, plus an introduction, by the well-known historian and editor of 'The Ricardian', Anne Sutton, on women in medieval London. The book is thoroughly footnoted and indexed and there is a bibliography. The women in these studies, and their husbands, came from all over England to make their fortunes in London. Many trades and crafts, from pewterers, ironmongers, clothiers, and mercers, to the clerk of the king's council, are represented, but the silkwomen are the most numerous. The persistent historiographical problem of the 'femme sole' is addressed. The emphasis is on women who married several times, their wealth sought by men ambitious for the highest civic offices, who in turn could offer the role of lady mayoress. As widows these women bought and managed properties, ran businesses, founded chantries, dispensed charity, often while bringing up their grandchildren and children of other women. Their multiple marriages created complex networks of families within the parish and company structures of London. The period covered is the 1130s to the 1530s. The book contains several family trees.--amazon.com.
Author : Sara Margaret Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415825160
Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the fact that couples regularly divorced on the grounds of spousal incompatibility.
Author : Susan Mosher Stuard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512807295
What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the Middle Ages? Susan Mosher Stuard addresses these questions in a collection of essays that delve in to the history and historiography of women in medieval England, France, Italy, and Germany. Contributors include Barbara Hanawalt, Diane Owen Hughes, Suzanne Wemple, Denise Kaiser, and Martha Howell. One of the most interesting observations made in Women in Medieval History and Historiography is the way in which the history of women in each country has followed a distinct course that is in rhythm with other concerns of national historical writing. Women in Medieval History and Historiography will interest historians, scholars of women's studies, and medievalists.
Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826419859
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.
Author : Michael M. Sheehan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802081371
A collection of essays by Michael Sheehan, whose work and interpretation on medieval property, marriage, family, sexuality, and law has insprired scholars for 40 years.
Author : Kate Kelsey Staples
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004203112
From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.
