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Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards.

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"Drawing on much unedited archival material and effectively employing her detailed understanding of medieval law, Marie Kelleher shows how women and others dealing with cases involving women and women's issues necessarily worked with and through the law and the ideological and social assumptions underpinning it." * Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto *

Table of Contents

A Note on Names
Map
Introduction: Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts
Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II
Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property
Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women
Chapter 4. Gender and Violence
Conclusions
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 15/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780812242560, 978-0812242560
      ISBN10: 0812242564
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards.

      Trade Review
      "Drawing on much unedited archival material and effectively employing her detailed understanding of medieval law, Marie Kelleher shows how women and others dealing with cases involving women and women's issues necessarily worked with and through the law and the ideological and social assumptions underpinning it." * Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto *

      Table of Contents

      A Note on Names
      Map
      Introduction: Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts
      Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II
      Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property
      Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women
      Chapter 4. Gender and Violence
      Conclusions
      List of Abbreviations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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