Medieval Women and Urban Justice
Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500
Seiten
2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7179-5 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7179-5 (ISBN)
This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women’s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women’s legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life. -- .
This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns – Nottingham, Chester and Winchester – and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the systems of local justice. Through comparison of the records of three towns, and of women’s roles in different types of legal action, the book reveals the complex ways in which individual women’s legal status could vary according to their marital status, different types of plea and the town that they lived in. At this lowest level of medieval law, women’s status was malleable, making each woman’s experience of justice unique. -- .
This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns – Nottingham, Chester and Winchester – and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the systems of local justice. Through comparison of the records of three towns, and of women’s roles in different types of legal action, the book reveals the complex ways in which individual women’s legal status could vary according to their marital status, different types of plea and the town that they lived in. At this lowest level of medieval law, women’s status was malleable, making each woman’s experience of justice unique. -- .
Teresa Phipps is Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University -- .
Introduction
1 Women, town courts and customary law in context
2 Commerce, credit and coverture: women and debt litigation
3 Law and the regulation of women’s work
4 Violence, property and ‘bad speech’: women and trespass litigation
5 Public disorder, policing and misbehaving women
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender in History |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 graphs, 1 map |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 277 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7179-1 / 1526171791 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7179-5 / 9781526171795 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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