LEADER 04092nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910788367903321 005 20211012030815.0 010 $a1-283-89787-3 010 $a0-8122-0534-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205343 035 $a(CKB)3170000000047023 035 $a(OCoLC)794700621 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576076 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11374135 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10579710 035 $a(PQKB)11255746 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8333 035 $a(DE-B1597)449390 035 $a(OCoLC)1013941229 035 $a(OCoLC)979740939 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441636 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576076 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421037 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441636 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000047023 100 $a20091118d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe measure of woman$b[electronic resource] $elaw and female identity in the crown of Aragon /$fMarie A. Kelleher 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4256-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tA Note on Names --$tIntroduction. Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts --$tChapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II --$tChapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property --$tChapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women --$tChapter 4. Gender and Violence --$tConclusions --$tAbbreviations --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aBy the end of the Middle Ages, the ius commune-the combination of canon and Roman law-had formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. Throughout medieval Europe, women regularly found themselves in court, suing or being sued, defending themselves against criminal accusations, or prosecuting others for crimes committed against them or their families. Yet choosing to litigate entailed accepting the conceptual vocabulary of the learned law, thereby reinforcing the very legal and social notions that often subordinated them. In The Measure of Woman Marie A. Kelleher explores the complex relationship between women and legal culture in Spain's Crown of Aragon during the late medieval period. Aragonese courts measured women according to three factors: their status in relation to men, their relative sexual respectability, and their conformity to ideas about the female sex as a whole. Yet in spite of this situation, Kelleher argues, women were able to play a crucial role in shaping their own legal identities while working within the parameters of the written law. The Measure of Woman reveals that women were not passive recipients-or even victims-of the legal system. Rather, medieval women actively used the conceptual vocabulary of the law, engaging with patriarchal legal assumptions as part of their litigation strategies. In the process, they played an important role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that would shape the lives of women throughout Western Europe and beyond for centuries to come. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc$zSpain$xHistory 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory. 676 $a346.4601/34 700 $aKelleher$b Marie A$01580810 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788367903321 996 $aThe measure of woman$93862005 997 $aUNINA