Goldberg Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61027-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a successful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St Leonard's Hospital. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldberg, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Alice de Rouclif: An Eventful Childhood William Pottell: Stories and Storytellers Ellen Taliour: Gender and the Remembrance of Times Past Robert Thewed: The Ties of Tenure and Locality Anabilla Wastelyne: The Ties of Kinship Dom. William Marrays: Stories and Readers Alice Through the Looking Glass Brewing Trouble: The Devout Widow's Tale Patriarchy, Civic Identity and the Widow of Doncaster

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Goldberg is Reader in Medieval History at the University of York.