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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807348003321

Titolo

Women in medieval society / / Brenda M. Bolton ... [et al.] ; edited, with an introd., by Susan Mosher Stuard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Philadelphia], : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976

ISBN

1-283-89035-6

0-8122-0767-X

0-585-12738-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The Middle ages

Altri autori (Persone)

BoltonBrenda

StuardSusan Mosher

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500

Social history - Medieval, 500-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Land, Family, and Women in Continental Europe, 701-1200 -- Infanticide in the Early Middle Ages -- Women in Reconquest Castile: The Fueros of Sepulveda and Cuenca -- Marriage and Divorce in the Prankish Kingdom -- The Female Felon in Fourteenth- Century England -- Mulieres Sanctae -- Widow and Ward: The Feudal Law of Child Custody in Medieval England -- Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice -- Women in Charter and Statute Law: Medieval Ragusa/Dubrovnik -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were indicted. They owned property and administered estates. The drive toward economic growth and expansion abroad rested on the capacity of women to staff and manage economic endeavors at home.  In the later Middle Ages, the social position of women altered significantly, and the reasons why the role of women in society tended to become more restrictive are examined in



these essays.