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Women in the medieval English countryside : gender and household in Brigstock before the plague / Judith M. Bennett

Bennett, Judith M.,i1951- [Verfasser]

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 322 pages)

Oxford University Press paperback

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index

1-4237-3599-4 ; 978-1-4237-3599-1 ; 978-0-19-504094-4 ; 0-19-504094-5 ; 1-280-43949-1 ; 978-1-280-43949-0

NW 8100

 

Frau  England  Sozialgeschichte 1200-1350 

In this book, Judith Bennett addresses the gap in our knowledge of medieval country women by examining how their lives differed from those of rural men. Drawing on her study of an English manor in the early-fourteenth century, she finds that rural women were severely restricted in their public roles and rights primarily because of their household status as dependents of their husbands, rather than because of a notion of female inferiority. Adolescent women and widows, by virtue of their unmarried status, enjoyed greater legal and public freedom than did their married counterparts.