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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women.

Women litigants.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field. Drawing on archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Low Countries, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, Litigating Women is the perfect resource for students and scholars interested in legal studies and gender in medieval and early modern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

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 (pages 223-246) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-52888-X

1-000-52884-7

0-429-27803-9

9780429278037

OCLC:

1290487109