Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England

Klappentext An examination of different aspects of women's activities in litigation in sixteenth-century England. Zusammenfassung This book examines gender relations in Shakespeare's England by looking at women's involvement in lawsuits in the largest courts in the land. It describes women's rights in theory and in practice! considers depictions of women in court scenes in plays! and analyses the language and tactics used by women lawyers employed in pleadings. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Women, legal rights and law courts; 3. Female litigants and the culture of litigation; 4. The court of requests; 5. Unmarried women and widows; 6. Married women; 7. Freebench, custom and equity; 8. Pleading strategies in requests; 9. Women waging law.

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• Authors: Tim Stretton, Tim (University of Waikato Stretton, Stretton Tim, Stretton Tim
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023252
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02325-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600