Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Bronach Karte with Fiona Williamson
  • Shaping women's testimony
  • Your Oratrice : women's petitions to the late Medieval court of Chancery / Cordelia Beattie
  • Echoes, whispers, ventriloquisms : on recovering womens voices from the court of York in the later middle ages / Jeremy Goldberg
  • Women, memory and agency in the Medieval english Church courts / Bronach Kane
  • Encountering the law
  • 'Utterly and untruly he hath deceived me' : women's inheritance in late Medieval England / Rosemary Horrox
  • 'She Hym fresshely folowed and pursued' : women and star chamber in early Tudor Wales / Deborah Youngs
  • Women and the hue and cry in late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth / Janka Rodziewicz
  • Women's voices and women's spaces
  • Gender and the control of sacred space in early Modern England / Amanda Fiather
  • The Travails of Agnes Beaumont / Bernard Capp
  • Parish politics, urban spaces and women's voices in seventeenth-century Norwich / Fiona Williamson
  • 'With a Sword Drawne in her hande' : defending the boundaries of household space in seventeenth-century Wales / Nicola Whyte
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index.