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Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe (Hardcover)
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Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
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Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms,
demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across
the centuries. There has been a tendency in scholarship on
premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from
view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume
provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the
legal principle of coverture applied has been over-emphasized. In
particular, it points up differences between the English common law
position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and
their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest
Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of
property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and
early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent,
Sweden,Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and
where the legal principle of coverture was applied and what effect
this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through
the book are married women'srights regarding the possession of
moveable and immovable property, marital property at the
dissolution of marriage, married women's capacity to act as agents
of their husbands and households in transacting business, and
married women's interactions with the courts. Cordelia Beattie is
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh;
Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea
University Contributors: Lars Ivar Hansen, Shennan Hutton, Lizabeth
Johnson, Gillian Kenny, Mia Korpiola, Miriam Muller, S.C. Ogilvie,
Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence.
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