Married Women in Legal Practice : Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450.
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other source...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge research in gender and history ;
38. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the charters pertaining to women created. This enables new findings from an area that has previously not been studied on a larger scale, and reveals trends and tendencies regarding aspects considered central to married women's agency, such as networks, criminal liability, and procedural capacity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 188 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429345234 0429345232 9781000692921 1000692922 9781000693102 1000693104 9781000693287 1000693287 |