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Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive
consideration of the part played by women in the workings and
business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages.
Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women's
access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active
supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared
there in person to prosecute cases or make political demands. It
explores the positions of women of varying rank, from queens to
peasants, vis-a-vis this male institution, where they very
occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented
by written petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the
official records of parliament reveals that there were a number of
issues on which women consistently pressed for changes in the law
and its administration, and where the Commons and the Crown either
championed or refused to support reform. Such is the concentration
of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these may
justifiably be termed 'women's issues' in the medieval Parliament.
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