Format:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
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map ; 24 cm
ISBN:
1283897873
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9781283897877
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9780812205343
Series Statement:
Middle ages series
Content:
Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Names -- Map -- Introduction: Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts -- Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II -- Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property -- Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women -- Chapter 4. Gender and Violence -- Conclusions -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208) and index
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""A Note on Names""; ""Map""; ""Introduction: Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts""; ""Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II""; ""Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property""; ""Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women""; ""Chapter 4. Gender and Violence""; ""Conclusions""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283897857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812242560
Additional Edition:
Print version Measure of Woman : Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon
Language:
English
