Married women in legal practice : agency and norms in the Swedish realm, 1350-1450 / Charlotte Cederbom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cederbom, Charlotte, 1982- author.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Married women--Legal status, laws, etc--Sweden--History--To 1500.

Married women.

Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.

History.

Sweden.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge 2020.

Summary:

"This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the charters pertaining to women created. This enables new findings from an area that has previously not been studied on a larger scale, and reveals trends and tendencies regarding aspects considered central to married women's agency, such as networks, criminal liability, and procedural capacity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Defining Women's Legal Status

Married Women and Legal Representation

Married Women and Property Management

What Married Women Could and Did Do : A Summary and Some Conclusions

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Helsingin yliopisto, 2017) issued under title: The legal guardian and married women : norms and practice in the Swedish realm 1350-1450.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cederbom, Charlotte, 1982- Married women in legal practice

ISBN:

9780367363123

0367363127

OCLC:

1102796425