Gender And Petty Crime In Late Medieval England
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Author | : Karen Jones |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843832164 |
A large proportion of late medieval people, were accused of some kind of misdemeanour. This book studies gender and crime in late medieval England. It shows how charges against women differed from those against men, and how assumptions and fears about masculinity and femininity were reflected and reinforced by the local courts.
Author | : Karen Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2006 |
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ISBN | : 9781843832164 |
Author | : Teresa Phipps |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526134616 |
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.
Author | : Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000523497 |
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times. Building on the contributions of the social sciences, and in particular feminist criminology, the book analyses the rich theme of women and violence in its full spectrum, including both violence committed against women and violence perpetrated by women themselves, in order to show how medieval assumptions postulated a tight connection between the two. Violent crime, verbal offences, war and peace-making are among the themes approached by the book, which assesses to what extent coexisting elaborations on the relationship between femininity and violence in the Mediterranean were conflicting or collaborating. Geographical regions explored include Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. This multidisciplinary book will appeal to scholars and students of history, literature, gender studies, and legal studies.
Author | : Bronach Kane |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320026 |
Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law.
Author | : Judith M. Bennett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1987-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198021135 |
Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive records of the forest manor of Brigstock, Judith Bennett challenges the myth of a "golden age" of equality for medieval men and women. Instead, she ably shows that women faced profound political, legal, economic, and social disadvantages in their dealings with men. These disadvantages stemmed more from women's household status as dependents of their husbands than from any notion of female inferiority; consequently, adolescents and widows participated much more actively than wives in the public life of Brigstock. Women in the Medieval English Countryside demonstrates not only how enduring the subordination of women has been throughout English history, but also how firmly that subordination has been rooted in the conjugal household.
Author | : Beth Allison Barr |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843833734 |
A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.
Author | : Sara Butler |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2007-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047418956 |
The Language of Abuse provides the first comprehensive examination of marital violence in later medieval England. Drawing from a wide variety of legal and literary sources, this book develops a nuanced perspective of the acceptability of marital violence at a time when social expectations of gender and marriage were in transition. As such, Butler’s work contributes to current debates concerning the role of the jury, levels of violence in late medieval England, the power relationship within marriage, and the position of women in medieval society.
Author | : Kathryn Maude |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 1843845962 |
An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.
Author | : Sarah Baechle |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-05-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271093056 |
Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency, and survivors’ speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking about sexual violence today. In addition to embodying the possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles. The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically tailored to the undergraduate classroom. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.