Screen LibraryThe measure of woman : law and female identity in the crown of aragon /
Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal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 li...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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| Summary: |
Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 1 map. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205343 |
| Index Number: | KKT517 |
| CLC: | D755.186.8-09 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Names -- 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 -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |