Bronach Kane

Women, Agency and the Law, 1300-1700 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on close readings of both public and private documents - court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets - this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317320012
• Artikelnr.: 43589480

Autorenporträt

Bronach Kane, Fiona Williamson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Bronach Kane
Fiona Williamson; Introduction
Bronach Kane
Fiona Williamson; Chapter 1 Your Oratrice: Women's Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery
Cordelia Beattie; Chapter 2 Echoes
Whispers
Ventriloquisms: On Recovering Women's Voices from The Court of York in the Later Middle Ages
Jeremy Goldberg; Chapter 3 Women
Memory and Agency in the Medieval English Church Courts
Bronach Kane; Chapter 4 'Utterly and Untruly he Hath deceived Me': Women's Inheritance In Late Medieval England
Rosemary Horrox; Chapter 5 'She Hym Fresshely Folowed and Pursued': Women and Star Chamber in Early Tudor Wales
Deborah Youngs; Chapter 6 Women and the Hue and Cry in Late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth
Janka Rodziewicz; Chapter 7 Gender and the Control of Sacred Space in Early Modern England
Amanda Flather; Chapter 8 The Travails of Agnes Beaumont
Bernard Capp; Chapter 9 Parish Politics
Urban Spaces and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Norwich
Fiona Williamson; Chapter 10 'With a Sword Drawne in Her Hande': Defending the Boundaries of Household Space in Seventeenth-Century Wales
Nicola Whyte Appendix;