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 ; Volume 38.

Routledge research in gender and history ; Volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Married women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : 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.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Defining Women's Legal Status 2. Married Women and Legal Representation 3. Married Women and Property Management 4. What Married Women Could and Did Do - A Summary and Some Conclusions

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode/

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed January 17, 2023).

ISBN:

9781000693287

1000693287

9781000692921

1000692922

9780429345234

0429345232

OCLC:

1119391386

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429345234

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access