Litigating women : gender and justice in Europe, c.1300-c.1800 / edited by Teresa Phipps and Deborah Youngs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phipps, Teresa, editor.

Youngs, Deborah, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe--History.

Women.

Women litigants--Europe--History.

Women litigants.

History.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (volumes)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Teresa Phipps is a social historian of late medieval England and Wales, interested in women, law, and urban society. Publications include a monograph on women and justice in late medieval English towns (2020), a volume on medieval town courts (2019), and articles on coverture, trespass, and credit. Deborah Youngs is a Professor of History at Swansea University, UK, with research interests in the social, legal and cultural histories of late medieval England and Wales. She is currently researching and publishing on women's litigation in the English court of Star Chamber.

Contents:

Mothers and daughters and sons, in the law : family conflict, legal stories, and women's litigation in late Medieval Marseille / Susan McDonough

'Consent and coercion : women's use of marital consent laws as legal defense in late Medieval Paris / Kristi DiClemente

Shades of consent : abduction for marriage and women's agency in the late Medieval low countries / Chanelle Delameilleure

Female litigants in secular and ecclesiastical courts in the lands of the Bohemian crown, c.1300-c.1500 / Michaela Antonín Malaníková

Widowhood and attainder in Medieval Ireland : the case of Margaret Nugent / Sparky Booker

Choosing Chancery? : Women's petitions to the late Medieval Court of Chancery / Cordelia Beattie

Gendered roles and female litigants in northeastern England, 1300-1530 / Peter Larson

Property over patriarchy? Remarried widows as litigants in the records of Glasgow's commissary court, 1615-1694 / Rebecca Mason

Women negotiating wealth : gender, law and arbitration in early modern southern Tyrol / Margareth Lanzinger and Janine Maegraith

A litigating widow and wife in early modern Sweden : Lady Elin Johansdotter [Månesköld] and her family circle / Mia Korpiola

Women litigants in early eighteenth-century Ireland / Mary O'Dowd

Hidden in plain sight : female litigators, reproductive lives, archival practices and early modern historiography / Julie Hardwick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Janurary 3, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Litigating women.

ISBN:

9780429278037

0429278039

9781000528848

1000528847

9781000528886

100052888X

Publisher Number:

40030975290

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