Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

by J. Goldberg

2020-11-25 07:32:51

Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of... Read more
Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a successful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St Leonard''s Hospital. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.63 in
Print pages239
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date December 12, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780230602946

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