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Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe
Edited by Cordelia Beattie, Edited by Matthew Frank Stevens, Contributions by Alexandra Shepard, Contributions by Cathryn Spence, Contributions by Cordelia Beattie, Contributions by Gillian Kenny, Contributions by Lars Ivar Hansen, Contributions by Lizabeth Johnson, Contributions by Matthew Frank Stevens, Contributions by Mia Korpiola
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Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries. There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of coverture applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent, Sweden,Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and where the legal principle of coverture was applied and what effect this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through the book are married women'srights regarding the possession of moveable and immovable property, marital property at the dissolution of marriage, married women's capacity to act as agents of their husbands and households in transacting business, and married women's interactions with the courts. Cordelia Beattie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh; Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University Contributors: Lars Ivar Hansen, Shennan Hutton, Lizabeth Johnson, Gillian Kenny, Mia Korpiola, Miriam Muller, S.C. Ogilvie, Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence.
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Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published date | 18 Jul 2013
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 260
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 478g
ISBN | 978-1-8438-3833-3
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BISAC | history / medieval
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