Women in the medieval English countryside : gender and household in Brigstock before the plague / Judith M. Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Judith M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--England--History--Case studies.

Women.

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

Sex role--England--History--Case studies.

Sex role.

England--Rural conditions--Case studies.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive records of the forest manor of Brigstock, Judith Bennett challenges the myth of a ""golden age"" of equality for medieval men and women. Instead, she ably shows that women faced profound political, legal, economic, and social disadvantages in their dealings with men. These disadvantages stemmed more from women's household status as dependents

Contents:

Contents; Tables and Figures; I: Introduction; II: Studying Women in the Medieval Countryside; III: Rural Households Before the Plague; IV: Daughters and Sons; V: Wives and Husbands; VI: Widows; VII: Medieval Countrywomen in Perspective; Appendix: A Note on Method; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. 295-312 and index.

ISBN:

1-280-43949-1

1-4237-3599-4

0-19-802113-5

1-60129-605-3

OCLC:

171570618