1st Edition

Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700

By Bronach Kane Copyright 2013
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law.

    Preface, Bronach Kane, Fiona Williamson; Introduction, Bronach Kane, Fiona Williamson; Chapter 1 Your Oratrice: Women’s Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, Cordelia Beattie; Chapter 2 Echoes, Whispers, Ventriloquisms: On Recovering Women’s Voices from The Court of York in the Later Middle Ages, Jeremy Goldberg; Chapter 3 Women, Memory and Agency in the Medieval English Church Courts, Bronach Kane; Chapter 4 ‘Utterly and Untruly he Hath deceived Me’: Women’s Inheritance In Late Medieval England, Rosemary Horrox; Chapter 5 ‘She Hym Fresshely Folowed and Pursued’: Women and Star Chamber in Early Tudor Wales, Deborah Youngs; Chapter 6 Women and the Hue and Cry in Late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth, Janka Rodziewicz; Chapter 7 Gender and the Control of Sacred Space in Early Modern England, Amanda Flather; Chapter 8 The Travails of Agnes Beaumont, Bernard Capp; Chapter 9 Parish Politics, Urban Spaces and Women’s Voices in Seventeenth-Century Norwich, Fiona Williamson; Chapter 10 ‘With a Sword Drawne in Her Hande’: Defending the Boundaries of Household Space in Seventeenth-Century Wales, Nicola Whyte Appendix;

    Biography

    Bronach Kane, Fiona Williamson