Women's Roles in the Middle AgesInformation about women in this truly fascinating period from 500 to 1500 is in great demand and has been a challenge for historians to uncover. Bardsley has mined a wide range of primary sources, from noblewomen's writing, court rolls, chivalric literature, laws and legal documents, to archeology and artwork. This fresh survey provides readers with an excellent understanding of how women high and low fared in terms of religion, work, family, law, culture, and politics and public life. Even though medieval women were divided by social class, religion, age, marital status, place and period, they were all subject to an overarching patriarchal structure and sometimes could transcend their inferior status. Numerous examples of these exceptional women and their words are included. |
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Sandy Bardsley. Records of borough courts and rural manor courts are terrific sources for approaching the lives of ordinary people , but other court records are useful too . Church courts operated throughout much of Europe , and as the ...
... courts of the town of Exeter were similarly admonished and told that they should be represented by their husbands.1o Social conventions often reinforced laws preventing women from appearing in courts . In fifteenth- century Lucca ...
... court of Chancery , another English royal court estab- lished to try cases that did not fit easily or equitably into the jurisdiction of ordinary courts . About 15 percent of litigants in the English equity court of Chancery were women ...
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Medieval Women | 1 |
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Copyright | |
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