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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Gender in the Middle Ages ;
v. 8. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Inheritance, property and marriage in medieval Norway / Lars Ivar Hansen
- Spousal disputes, the marital property system, and the law in later medieval Sweden / Mia Korpiola
- When two worlds collide : marriage and the law in medieval Ireland / Gillian Kenny
- Married women, crime and the courts in late medieval Wales / Lizabeth Johnson
- Peasant women, agency and status in late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England : some reconsiderations / Miriam Müller
- London's married women, debt litigation and coverture in the Court of Common Pleas / Matthew Frank Stevens
- Married women, contracts and coverture in late medieval England / Cordelia Beattie
- Property, family and partnership : married women and legal capability in late medieval Ghent / Shennan Hutton
- "For his interest"? : Women, debt and coverture in early modern Scotland / Cathryn Spence
- The worth of married women witnesses in the English Church courts, 1550-1730 / Alexandra Shepard
- Married women, work and the law : evidence from early modern Germany / Sheilagh Ogilvie.
