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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... suggests that the lack of twelfth - century evidence for women passing maritagia on to daughters may be the result of poor survival rates rather than any other factor . Land which had been used as dower could similarly be reused in the ...
... suggests that the lack of twelfth - century evidence for women passing maritagia on to daughters may be the result of poor survival rates rather than any other factor . Land which had been used as dower could similarly be reused in the ...
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... suggests that in 1066 few women had initially crossed the Channel from France , since soon afterwards certain Norman women , consumed by fierce lust , sent message after message to their husbands urging them to return at once , and ...
... suggests that in 1066 few women had initially crossed the Channel from France , since soon afterwards certain Norman women , consumed by fierce lust , sent message after message to their husbands urging them to return at once , and ...
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... suggests that nuns were routinely consulted on documents issued in the name of the community - Sr Elisabeth - Agnès mentions , for instance , in one letter that some elements of an agreed declaration had been softened to take into ...
... suggests that nuns were routinely consulted on documents issued in the name of the community - Sr Elisabeth - Agnès mentions , for instance , in one letter that some elements of an agreed declaration had been softened to take into ...
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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