Women, agency and the law, 1300-1700 / edited by Bronach Kane and Fiona Williamson.
2013
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Title
Women, agency and the law, 1300-1700 / edited by Bronach Kane and Fiona Williamson.
Published
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
Call Number
KD734 .W66 2013
ISBN
9781848933842 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1848933843 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1848933843 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)855200460
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-202) and index.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
ix
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Preface
xv
Introduction - Bronach Kane with Fiona Williamson
1
pt. I
Shaping Women's Testimony
1.
Your Oratrice: Women's Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery / Cordelia Beattie
17
2.
Echoes, Whispers, Ventriloquisms: On Recovering Women's Voices from the Court of York in the Later Middle Ages - Jeremy Goldberg
31
3.
Women, Memory and Agency in the Medieval English Church Courts / Bronach Kane
43
pt. II
Encountering the Law
4.
`Utterly and Untruly He Hath Deceived Me': Women's Inheritance in Late Medieval England / Rosemary Horrox
63
5.
`She Hym Fresshely Folowed and Pursued': Women and Star Chamber in Early Tudor Wales / Deborah Youngs
73
6.
Women and the Hue and Cry in Late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth / Janka Rodziewicz
87
pt. III
Women's Voices and Women's Spaces
7.
Gender and the Control of Sacred Space in Early Modern England / Amanda Flather
99
8.
The Travails of Agnes Beaumont / Bernard Capp
113
9.
Parish Politics, Urban Spaces and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Norwich / Fiona Williamson
125
10.
`With a Sword Drawne in Her Hande': Defending the Boundaries of Household Space in Seventeenth-Century Wales / Nicola Whyte
141
Appendix
157
Notes
159
Index
203