Women, agency and the law, 1300-1700 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Pickering & Chatto,
2013.
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| Series: | Body, gender and culture ;
no. 15. |
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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.