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Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485-1603 - Authority, Influence and Material Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485-1603 - Authority, Influence and Material Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of
published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study
examines the largest corpus of women's private writings available
to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out,
commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status,
familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to
have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of
their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed
actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and
did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis
of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from
all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an
entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable
individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and
used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James
demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care,
create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad
occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James
illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of
bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control,
catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a
woman's understanding of her own reality and the context that
formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women
wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th
century and reveals the seminal role women played in its
development.
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