UID:
edocfu_9958352440702883
Format:
1 online resource (232 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812205343
Series Statement:
The 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Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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A Note on Names --
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Introduction. Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts --
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Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II --
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Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property --
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Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women --
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Chapter 4. Gender and Violence --
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Conclusions --
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Abbreviations --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812205343
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205343
