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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... perhaps the most sympathetic towards Eve , graphically describing her fear the first time the darkness of night falls and attributing her disobedience to the serpent's promise that the light will return if she eats of the forbidden ...
... perhaps the most sympathetic towards Eve , graphically describing her fear the first time the darkness of night falls and attributing her disobedience to the serpent's promise that the light will return if she eats of the forbidden ...
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... perhaps take this to mean that a widow was generally expected to share her maritagium between all her daughters , rather than reserving the whole to one . In other cases we have seen that the marriage portion was granted to a younger ...
... perhaps take this to mean that a widow was generally expected to share her maritagium between all her daughters , rather than reserving the whole to one . In other cases we have seen that the marriage portion was granted to a younger ...
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... perhaps unsurprisingly , turned and fled . If Freydis was pregnant in Vinland , was she the first European woman to bear a child on the American continent ? That honour is usually accorded to another , perhaps more attractive character ...
... perhaps unsurprisingly , turned and fled . If Freydis was pregnant in Vinland , was she the first European woman to bear a child on the American continent ? That honour is usually accorded to another , perhaps more attractive character ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 6 | 6 |
Share and share alike? The marriage portion inheritance | 36 |
women and the conquest | 49 |
Copyright | |
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