Women and Property - In Early Modern England

Zusatztext 'A major contribution to our understanding of the early modern family.' - Katherine French! SUNY-New Paltz'Amy Erickson has produced a rich and finely nuanced study of women and property in early modern England. ... This is an important work and its conclusions with regard to both theory and practice should modify facile stereotypes still present in the literature on women and the family in early modern times.' - Gender and History'An impressive study ... a scholar of the first rank.' - Germaine Greer! The Guardian'Extremely stimulating.' - Antonia Fraser! The Times Informationen zum Autor Amy Louise Erickson Klappentext `An impressive study.' - Germaine Greer. Amy Erickson combines legal, social and women's history in an imaginative and methodically interesting way to chart the limits and the contradictions of women as property owners. Zusammenfassung `An impressive study.' - Germaine Greer. Amy Erickson combines legal, social and women's history in an imaginative and methodically interesting way to chart the limits and the contradictions of women as property owners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Background; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Law, society and documents; Part 2 Maids; Chapter 3 Upbringing; Chapter 4 Inheritance; Chapter 5 Portions and marriage; Part 3 Wives; Chapter 6 The nature of marriage settlements; Chapter 7 Marriage settlements in the Court of Chancery; Chapter 8 Marriage settlements in probate documents; Part 4 Widows; Chapter 9 Widows of men who made wills; Chapter 10 Widows of men who did not make wills; Chapter 11 How lone women lived; Chapter 12 Lone women's wills;

Product details

• Authors: Amy Louise Erickson, Erickson Amy Louise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138177246
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17724-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LAW / Property, General & world history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Property law: general, property law