Susan E. James

Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485-1603 (eBook, ePUB)

Authority, Influence and Material Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contributing an original dimension to the study of women in 16th-century England, this pioneering work examines the largest corpus of women's private writings available: their wills. Through an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, women from all parts of the country and all strata of society are revealed as articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who, despite legal and cultural limitations, exercised authority over their own lives and influenced the lives of their heirs after their death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134781010
• Artikelnr.: 44863651

Autorenporträt

Susan E. James is an historian and independent researcher. She received her PhD from Cambridge University and is the author of Kateryn Parr: The Making of a Queen (Ashgate, 1999), The Feminine Dynamic in English Art (Ashgate, 2008), and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Performance of Death
2: Identity and Remembrance
3: Women's Work
4: The Dispersal of Assets
5: The Dispersal of Assets
6: The Dispersal of Assets
Conclusion