ISBN:
9781843838333
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Gender in the Middle Ages v.8
Parallel Title:
Print version Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe
DDC:
306.87230940902
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction: Uncovering Married Woman; 1. Inheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway; 2. Spousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden; 3. When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland; 4. Married Woman, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales; 5. Peasant Women, Agency and Status in Mid-Thirteenth- to Late Fourteenth-Century England: Some Reconsiderations; 6. London's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Married Women, Contracts and Converture in Late Medieval England8. Property, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent; 9. 'For His Interest'? Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland; 10. The Worth of Married Women in the English Church Courts, c. 1550-1730; 11. Married Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany; Index
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