Married women and the law in premodern northwest Europe /

There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-e...

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Other Authors: Beattie, Cordelia (Editor), Stevens, Matthew Frank (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2013.
Series:Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 8.
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Online Access:CONNECT