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Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with
regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights
concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined
and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal
discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds
usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in
which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some
decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring
together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view
that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval
women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the
late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap
which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways
in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages
(c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and
where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making
of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care,
custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of
a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the
court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution,
the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures
women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and
women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the
Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors:
P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA
BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS,
KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES
This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence
that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time
of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. The sources are
introduced by a substantial overview of current thinking about
English medieval women below the level of the greater aristocracy.
In addition, Goldberg explores many of the methodological problems
and strengths of particular sources. Individual chapters explore
the life-cycle themes of childhood, adolescence, married life,
widowhood and old age. The study then moves on to examine such
topics as work in town and country, prostitution, the law,
recreation and devotion. In every case the reader is exposed to a
range of sources, but particular attention is paid to those sources
that reflect actual experience or provide insights into the lives
of ordinary women rather than the prescriptive or purely literary
texts. A particular feature of this collection is the extensive use
of church court depositions that allow the voices of peasant women,
servant girls, bourgeois wives, or poor widows to be heard across
the centuries. The sources are presented in a form designed to be
accessible to undergraduates, but of interest to teachers and
researchers alike. -- .
Attitudes towards `labour', in the wake of the Black Death, shown
to range from early protest literature to repressive
authoritarianism. At the very moment that the image of the honest
labourer seemed to reach its apogee in the Luttrell Psalter or, a
few decades later, in Piers Plowman, the dominant culture of the
landed interests was increasingly suspiciousof what it described as
the idleness, greed and arrogance of the lower orders. Labour was
one of the central issues during the fourteenth century: the
natural disasters and profound social changes of the period created
not merelya "problem" of labour, but also new ways of discussing
and (supposedly) solving that problem. These studies engage with
the contrasting and often competing discourses which emerged,
ranging from the critical social awareness of some of the early
fourteenth-century protest literature to the repressive
authoritarianism of the new national employment laws that were
enforced in the wake of the Black Death, and were expressed in
counter-cultures of resistanceand dissent. JAMES BOTHWELL and
P.J.P. GOLDBERG lecture in history, and W.M. ORMROD is Professor of
History, at the University of York. Contributors: CORDELIA BEATTIE,
CHRISTOPHER DYER, RICHARD K. EMMERSON,P.J.P. GOLDBERG, KATE GILES,
CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON, STEPHEN KNIGHT, DEREK PEARSALL, SARAH REES
JONES.
Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the
sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England.
Moving on from the legacy of Aries, these essays address evidence
for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth,
but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The
contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of
Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the
understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe
for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith,
children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the
meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the
hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later
medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and
where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of
the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females
to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs
in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN
COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH
JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.
The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, prominent
throughout the language and life of the time. The notion of service
was ingrained in medieval culture, and not just as a part of the
wider concept of patronage: it is prominent throughout the language
and life of the time. These studies examine the nature and
importance of service in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in
a variety of contexts both within and beyond the dominions of the
English crown, including contracts between domestic servants and
employers, labour legislation, career opportunities for graduates,
the public service ethos embodied by the king's household retinue
and a scheme for its reform, public service in France, ducal
service in Brittany, and bastard feudalism in Scotland. ANNE CURRY
is Professor of History, University of Southampton; ELIZABETH
MATTHEW is honorary research fellow at the Department of History,
University of Reading. Contributors: JEREMY GOLDBERG, CHRISTOPHER
GIVEN-WILSON, MICHAEL JONES, ALEXANDER GRANT, VIRGINIA DAVIS,
JEREMY I. CATTO, D.A.L. MORGAN, KATHELEEN DALY, RALPH A. GRIFFITHS.
Thirteenth-Century England IIIcontinues the series which began in
1986 with the publication of the first volume of the biannual
Newcastle upon Tyne conferences on thirteenth-century England.
Important studies of aspects of English society and politics open
up new areas of research and re-examine standard interpretations.
Contributors: PAUL BRAND, D.W. BURTON, P.H. CULLUM, R.B. DOBSON,
ELIZABETH GEMMILL, P.J.P. GOLDBERG, ANTONIA GRANSDEN, LINDY GRANT,
MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ROBERT C. STACEY, R.L.STOREY, ROBIN STUDD,
CHRISTOPHER WILSON.
What did 'home' mean to men and women in the period 1200-1500? This
volume explores the many cultural, material and ideological
dimensions of the concept of domesticity. Leading scholars examine
not only the material cultures of domesticity, gender, and power
relations within the household, but also how they were envisioned
in texts, images, objects and architecture. Many of the essays
argue that England witnessed the emergence of a distinctive
bourgeois ideology of domesticity during the late Middle Ages. But
the volume also contends that, although the world of the great lord
was far removed from that of the artisan or peasant, these social
groups all occupied physical structures that constituted homes in
which people were drawn together by ties of kinship, service or
neighbourliness. This pioneering study will appeal to scholars of
medieval English society, literature and culture.
What did 'home' mean to men and women in the period 1200-1500? This
volume explores the many cultural, material and ideological
dimensions of the concept of domesticity. Leading scholars examine
not only the material cultures of domesticity, gender, and power
relations within the household, but also how they were envisioned
in texts, images, objects, and architecture. Many of the essays
argue that England witnessed the emergence of a distinctive
bourgeois ideology of domesticity during the late middle ages. But
the volume also contends that, although the world of the great lord
was far removed from that of the artisan or peasant, these social
groups all occupied physical structures that constituted homes in
which people were drawn together by ties of kinship, service or
neighbourliness. This pioneering study will appeal to scholars of
medieval English society, literature and culture.
All too often the medieval social past has been explored as an
adjunct to high politics. The subject of this study is ordinary men
and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the
borough were often far more real and pressing. It engages with
questions relating to the various structures of society, be they
social hierarchy, household, family, parish or manor, lay or
clergy. It also considers the ways in which age, gender, and
marital status shaped people's lives.
This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's
economic opportunity and marriage in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and Yorkshire,
but also utilizes evidence from other parts of England and
continental Europe. P. J. P. Goldberg explores the role of women in
the economy and the part that marriage played in their lives.
Importantly, he challenges the Wrigley and Schofield thesis of
nuptiality: his analysis of the demography of marriage demonstrates
that in late medieval Yorkshire, women participated strongly in the
labour force, deferring marriage or avoiding it entirely. This is a
stimulating and intelligent book, which makes an important
contribution to our understanding of medieval ways of life.
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