Medieval women and the law /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Menuge, Noël James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Women, power and protection in tenth- and eleventh-century England / Victoria Thompson
  • Unfamiliar territory: women, land and law in Occitania, 1130-1250 / Jennifer Smith
  • A room of one's own? the legal evidence for the residential arrangements of women without husbands in late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century York / Cordelia Beattie
  • Women, testamentary discourse and life-writing in later medieval England / Katherine J. Lewis
  • A few home truths: the medieval mother as guardian in romance and law / Nol︠ James Menuge
  • A matter of consent: Middle English romance and the law of Raptus / Corinne Saunders
  • Written on the body: reading rape from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries / Kim M. Phillips
  • '[S]he will...protect and defend her rights boldly by law and reason...': women's knowledge of Common Law and Equity Courts in late-medieval England / Emma Hawkes.