Beattie / Stevens Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78204-114-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 260 Seiten

Reihe: Gender in the Middle Ages

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beattie, Cordelia

Stevens, Matthew Frank

Weitere Mitwirkende

Shepard, Alexandra

Spence, Cathryn

Beattie, Cordelia

Kenny, Gillian

Hansen, Lars Ivar

Johnson, Lizabeth

Stevens, Matthew Frank

Korpiola, Mia

Muller, Miriam

Ogilvie, Sheilagh

Hutton, Shennan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Uncovering Married Women - Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens
When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland - Gillian Kenny
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
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 Muller
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