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Women, agency and the law, 1300-1700
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- Creator
- edited by Bronach Kane and Fiona Williamson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 209 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1848933843, 9781848933842
- OCLC
- ocn855200460
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-202) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales -- History -- To 1500.
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales -- History -- 16th century.
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales -- History -- 17th century.