Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns Or Players?Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, by both established and younger scholars and covering a wide time-span and geographical area, range from examinations of the laws which restrained or enabled women to discussions of women who resisted the authorities, from studies of women who stepped outside their prescribed role and behaved in a manner that might be described as 'manly' to analyses of the constructions of gender and womanhood that influenced such prescriptions. |
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... brother or family denied the claim . Philip of Stiffkey , for example , claimed in 1220 that his brother , Bartholomew , should warrant him for fifteen librates of land in three Norfolk villages , including Stiffkey itself , which their ...
... brother or family denied the claim . Philip of Stiffkey , for example , claimed in 1220 that his brother , Bartholomew , should warrant him for fifteen librates of land in three Norfolk villages , including Stiffkey itself , which their ...
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... brother William of those lands which William already held ' of the inheritance of Henry son of Wulfric our father and of the marriage portion of Agnes of Througham our mother ' in the manors of Upton in Blewbury ( Berks . ) and ...
... brother William of those lands which William already held ' of the inheritance of Henry son of Wulfric our father and of the marriage portion of Agnes of Througham our mother ' in the manors of Upton in Blewbury ( Berks . ) and ...
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... brother of the donee . The most obvious explanation for this is that many heirs resented land being granted away from their inheritance , and attempted to reclaim it at all costs , as they similarly tried to evade doing service for ...
... brother of the donee . The most obvious explanation for this is that many heirs resented land being granted away from their inheritance , and attempted to reclaim it at all costs , as they similarly tried to evade doing service for ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 67 | 6 |
Share and share alike? The marriage portion inheritance | 36 |
women and the conquest | 49 |
Copyright | |
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