Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Uncovering Married Women - Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens
When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland - Gillian Kenny
Inheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway - Lars Ivar Hansen
Spousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden - Mia Korpiola
Married Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales - Lizabeth Johnson
Peasant Women, Agency and Status in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century England: Some Reconsiderations - Miriam Muller
London's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas - Matthew Frank Stevens
Married Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England - Cordelia Beattie
Property, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent - Shennan Hutton
'For His Interest'?: Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland - Cathryn Spence
The Worth of Married Women Witnesses in the English Church Courts, 1550-1730 - Alexandra Shepard
Married Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany - Sheilagh Ogilvie

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Cordelia Beattie, Matthew Frank Stevens

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cordelia Beattie, Gillian Kenny, Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence, Matthew Frank Stevens
• Mitarbeit: Cordelia Beattie (Herausgeber), Matthew Frank Stevens (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.07.2013
• EAN: 9781843838333
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-833-3
• Seiten: 260
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Gewicht: 612 g
• Serien: Gender in the Middle Ages; Gender in the Middle Ages
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika