Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe

Contributor(s): Beattie, Cordelia (Editor), Stevens, Matthew Frank (Editor), Shepard, Alexandra (Contribution by), Spence, Cathryn (Contribution by), Beattie, Cordelia (Contribution by), Kenny, Gillian (Contribution by), Hansen, Lars Ivar (Contribution by), Johnson, Lizabeth (Contribution by), Stevens, Matthew Frank (Contribution by), Korpiola, Mia (Contribution by), Muller, Miriam (Contribution by), Ogilvie, Sheilagh (Contribution by), Hutton, Shennan (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9781843838333

Publisher: Boydell Press

Hardcover

$130.00

Pub Date: July 18, 2013

Dewey: 306.87230940

LCCN: 2013370738

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.50" L x 6.30" W ( 1.35 lbs) 260 pages

BISAC Categories:

History | Europe | Medieval

Series: Gender in the Middle Ages

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

Review Quotes: An important starting point for anyone who wants to understand regional variation, chronological change, and the relation between learned law and pragmatic legal processes relating to women and their economic roles.-- "THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW"