Women In The Medieval Common Law C 1200 1500

Author : Gwen Seabourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134775972

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Women in the Medieval Common Law c.1200–1500 by Gwen Seabourne Pdf

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 : Noël James Menuge
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 085115932X

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Medieval Women and the Law by Noël James Menuge Pdf

Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages (c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care, custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution, the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors: P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS, KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317245124

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Women in Medieval Europe 1200-1500 by Jennifer Ward Pdf

Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted to women. The chapters are arranged thematically to show the varied roles and lives of women in and out of the home, covering topics such as marriage, religion, family and work. For the second edition a new chapter draws together recent work on Jewish and Muslim women, as well as those from other ethnic groups, showing the wide ranging experiences of women from different backgrounds. Particular attention is paid to women at work in the towns, and specifically urban topics such as trade, crafts, healthcare and prostitution. The latest research on women, gender and masculinity has also been incorporated, along with updated further reading recommendations. This fully revised new edition is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the topic, perfect for all those studying women in Europe in the later Middle Ages.

Author : Jennifer C. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1138855685

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Women in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500 by Jennifer C. Ward Pdf

14 Lay beliefs and religious practice -- 15 Women, heresy and witchcraft -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Index

Author : Teresa Phipps,Deborah Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000528886

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Litigating Women by Teresa Phipps,Deborah Youngs Pdf

This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field. Individually, the chapters offer an insight into the motivations and strategies of women who engaged in legal action in a wide range of courts, from local rural and urban courts, to ecclesiastical courts and the highest jurisdictions of crown and parliament. Collectively, the focus on individual women litigants – rather than how women were defined by legal systems – highlights continuities in their experiences of justice, while also demonstrating the unique and intersecting factors that influenced each woman’s negotiation of the courts. Spanning a broad chronology and a wide range of contexts, these studies also offer a valuable insight into the practices and priorities of the many courts under discussion that goes beyond our focus on women litigants. Drawing on archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Low Countries, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, Litigating Women is the perfect resource for students and scholars interested in legal studies and gender in medieval and early modern Europe.

Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107090583

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A Historical Introduction to English Law by Russell Sandberg Pdf

Designed for those studying law for the first time, this book explores where the English common law came from.

Author : K. J. Kesselring,Tim Stretton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192666956

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Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700 by K. J. Kesselring,Tim Stretton Pdf

England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce Act and its creation of judicial divorces extend the possibility more broadly. Aspects of the history of divorce are well known from studies which typically privilege the records of the church courts that claimed a monopoly on marriage. But why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation, and how did people in failed marriages cope with this absence? One part of the answer to the first question, Kesselring and Stretton argue, and a factor that shaped people's responses to the second, lay in another distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights. The bonds of marriage stayed tightly tied in post-Reformation England in part because marriage was as much about wealth as it was about salvation or sexuality, and English society had deeply invested in a system that subordinated a wife's identity and property to those of the man she married. To understand this dimension of divorce's history, this study looks beyond the church courts to the records of other judicial bodies, the secular courts of common law and equity, to bring fresh perspective to a history that remains relevant today.

Author : Gwen Seabourne
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409417897

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Imprisoning Medieval Women by Gwen Seabourne Pdf

"By royal power and command" : maidens (and other women) in towers -- Confinement of women in war and armed conflict -- Other species of "garde" -- "A dreary and solitary place" or "honourable captivity"? -- Wrongful imprisonment and abduction -- "Countless ravishments of women"? -- Common law -- Escaping the confines of the common law -- "Not averse to the arrangement"? -- Other roles -- Agency and contagion.

Author : J. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0582288282

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Women in Medieval Europe:1200-1500 by J. Ward Pdf

Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429575495

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Subversive Legal History by Russell Sandberg Pdf

Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget. It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. Far from being archaic, elitist and dull, historical perspectives on law are and should be subversive. Comparison with the past underscores: how the law and legal institutions are not fixed but are constructed; that every line drawn in the law and everything the law holds as sacred is actually arbitrary; and how the environment into which law students are socialised is a historical construct. A subversive approach is needed to highlight, question, de-construct and re-construct the authored nature of the law, revealing that legal change on a larger scale is possible. Far from being archaic, this recasts legal history as being anarchic. Subversive Legal History is not a type of Legal History but is its defining characteristic if it is to be a central part of Law School life. It describes a legal method that should not be the preserve only of specialist legal historians but rather should be part of the toolkit of all law students, teachers and researchers. This book will be essential reading for all who work and study in Law Schools, proposing a radical new approach not only to the historical study of law but also to the content, purpose and ambition of legal education. A subversive approach can revolutionise Law Schools providing a more ambitious legal education which is grounded in the socio-legal reality, helping to ensure that today’s law students are better equipped to be the professionals and citizens of tomorrow.

Author : Russell Sandberg,Daniel Newman
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839990373

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Law and Humanities by Russell Sandberg,Daniel Newman Pdf

This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field. Each chapter is written by an expert in the respective field and addresses how the two disciplines of law and the other respective field operate. This edited work, therefore, fulfils a real and pressing need to provide an accessible, introductory but critical guide to law and humanities as a whole by exploring how each disciplinary ‘law and’ field has developed, contributes to further scrutinizing the content and role of law, and how it can contribute and be enriched by being understood within the law and humanities tradition as a whole.

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826419859

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Women in England in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Ward Pdf

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 : Lorren Eldridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000900552

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Law and the Medieval Village Community by Lorren Eldridge Pdf

This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community offers a historical and philosophical lens on the concept of custom which challenges accepted notions of what law is. The book traces the study of the medieval village community from early historical works in the nineteenth century through to current research. It demonstrates that some law-making can and has been ‘bottom-up’ in English law, with community-led decisionmaking having a particularly important role in the early common law. The detailed consideration of law in the English village community reveals alternative ways of making and conceiving of law which are not dependent on state authority, particularly in relation to customary and communal property rights. Acknowledging this poses challenges for legal theory: the legal positivism that dominates Western legal philosophy tends to reject custom as a source of law. However, this book argues that medieval customary law ought to be considered ‘law’ if we are ever going to fully understand law – both then and now. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of Legal History, Legal Theory, and Jurisprudence.

Author : P. J. P. Goldberg
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001735146

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Woman is a Worthy Wight by P. J. P. Goldberg Pdf

Author : Margaret C. Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135459604

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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Margaret C. Schaus Pdf

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages. A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: · Art and Architecture · Countries, Realms, and Regions · Daily Life · Documentary Sources · Economics · Education and Learning · Gender and Sexuality · Historiography · Law · Literature · Medicine and Science · Music and Dance · Persons · Philosophy · Politics · Political Figures · Religion and Theology · Religious Figures · Social Organization and Status Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.