Women in medieval society / Edited, with an introduction, by Susan Mosher Stuard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stuard, Susan Mosher, editor.

Series:

Middle Ages series

The Middle ages.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women.

History.

Physical Description:

219 pages : diagrams, tables. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.

Summary:

"A welcome and useful introduction to the study of medieval women."--

Contents:

Stuard, S. M. Introduction

Herlihy, D. Land, family, and women in Continental Europe, 701-1200

Coleman, E. Infanticide in the Early Middle Ages

Dillard, H. Women in Reconquest Castile: The Fueros of Sepúlveda and Cuenca

McNamaram, J. A. and Wemple, S. F. Marriage and divorce in the Frankish Kingdom

Hanawalt, B. A. The female felon in fourteenth-century England

Bolton, B. M. Mulieres sanctae

Walker, S. S. Widow and ward: the feudal law of Child custody in medieval England

Chojnacki, S. Dowries and kinsmen in Early Renaissance

Stuard, S. M. Women in charter and statue law: medieval Ragusa/Dubrovnik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0812277082

OCLC:

2209634