Communal discord, child abduction, and rape in the later Middle Ages / Jeremy Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, P. J. P., 1958-

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middles Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--England--Yorkshire.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

History.

England--Yorkshire.

England--Social conditions--1066-1485.

England.

Social conditions.

Women--England--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Roucht was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a succesful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St. Leonard's Hospital Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposed aristocratic connian. These are their stories.

Contents:

Alice de Rouclif : an eventful childhood

William Pottell : stories and storytellers

Ellen Taliour : gender and the remembrance of times past

Robert Thewed : the ties of tenure and locality

Anabilla Wascelyne : the ties of kinship

Dom. William Marrays : stories and readers

Alice through the looking glass

Brewing trouble : the devout widow's tale

Patriarchy, civic identity, and the widow of Doncaster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-232) and index.

ISBN:

0230602940

9780230602946

OCLC:

123029284

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