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Imprisoning Medieval Women - The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Imprisoning Medieval Women - The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval
European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the
imprisoned woman, usually a noblewoman, has carried through into
the quasi-medieval world of the fairy and folk tale, in which the
'maiden in the tower' is one of the archetypes. Yet the confinement
of women outside of the judicial system was not simply a fiction in
the medieval period. Men too were imprisoned without trial and
sometimes on mere suspicion of an offence, yet evidence suggests
that there were important differences in the circumstances under
which men and women were incarcerated, and in their roles in
relation to non-judicial captivity. This study of the confinement
of women highlights the disparity in regulation concerning male and
female imprisonment in the middle ages, and gives a useful
perspective on the nature of medieval law, its scope and
limitations, and its interaction with royal power and prerogative.
Looking at England from 1170 to 1509, the book discusses: the
situations in which women might be imprisoned without formal
accusation of trial; how social status, national allegiance and
stage of life affected the chances of imprisonment; the relevant
legal rules and norms; the extent to which legal and constitutional
developments in medieval England affected women's amenability to
confinement; what can be known of the experiences of women so
incarcerated; and how women were involved in situations of
non-judicial imprisonment, aside from themselves being prisoners.
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