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This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. An overview is included of current thinking about English medieval women below the level of the greater aristocracy.

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A note on editorial conventions used; childhood; adolescence - servanthood, instruction, courtship and marriage; husband and wife; widowhood, poverty, and old age; work in the countryside; work in the town; prostitution; law and custom - villeinage and custom, transgressions against customary law, disputes between neighbours, fornication, defamation, scolding and other subversive and anti-social activities, casting spells, age of majority, prison, sanctuary, women before the law, debt, theft, receiving, arson, assault, abduction, rape, homicide and petty treason, suicide (felo de se); recreation; devotion - female religious, anchoresses, hospital sisters, lay piety, heresy.

Women in England c12751525 Documentry Sources

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/21/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719040566, 978-0719040566
      ISBN10: 0719040566

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. An overview is included of current thinking about English medieval women below the level of the greater aristocracy.

      Table of Contents
      A note on editorial conventions used; childhood; adolescence - servanthood, instruction, courtship and marriage; husband and wife; widowhood, poverty, and old age; work in the countryside; work in the town; prostitution; law and custom - villeinage and custom, transgressions against customary law, disputes between neighbours, fornication, defamation, scolding and other subversive and anti-social activities, casting spells, age of majority, prison, sanctuary, women before the law, debt, theft, receiving, arson, assault, abduction, rape, homicide and petty treason, suicide (felo de se); recreation; devotion - female religious, anchoresses, hospital sisters, lay piety, heresy.

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