{"product_id":"women-in-england-c12751525-documentry-sources-manchester-medieval-sources-9780719040566","title":"Women in England c12751525 Documentry Sources","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037284041047,"sku":"9780719040566","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719040566.jpg?v=1750935149","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-in-england-c12751525-documentry-sources-manchester-medieval-sources-9780719040566","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}