Abduction And Power In Late Medieval England
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Abduction And Power In Late Medieval England
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Author : Julia Pope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Abduction And Power In Late Medieval England written by Julia Pope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Abduction categories.
This study examines fifty petitions sent to the Court of Chancery between 1389 and 1515 that relate to abduction. Although abduction was a serious problem in late medieval England, there have been few previous studies of the subject, and none have made use of Chancery petitions. This source sheds light on the way victims of abduction, or more often their families, presented their cases to the court. Many victims were young women who had been placed in wardship, suggesting that concerns over money and property, not primarily sexual violence, were paramount in such cases. Some of the other issues addressed include the point of view of the accused abductor, the problem of terminology, and the question of the victim's consent. The position that victims were viewed merely as male-owned property is criticized. The role of the family, and particularly mothers, in abduction cases is also examined. Finally, two cases in which the alleged abduction eventually resulted in the marriage of victim and abductor demonstrate that claims of abduction should not be simply taken at face value by historians. Rather, these petitions demonstrate the shifting claims of power exerted by various parties.
Communal Discord Child Abduction And Rape In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : J. Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-12-25
Communal Discord Child Abduction And Rape In The Later Middle Ages written by J. Goldberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-25 with History categories.
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.
Stolen Women In Medieval England
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Author : Caroline Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Stolen Women In Medieval England written by Caroline Dunn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with History categories.
This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls.
Imprisoning Medieval Women
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Author : Gwen Seabourne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Imprisoning Medieval Women written by Gwen Seabourne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with History categories.
The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the imprisoned woman, usually a noblewoman, has carried through into the quasi-medieval world of the fairy and folk tale, in which the 'maiden in the tower' is one of the archetypes. Yet the confinement of women outside of the judicial system was not simply a fiction in the medieval period. Men too were imprisoned without trial and sometimes on mere suspicion of an offence, yet evidence suggests that there were important differences in the circumstances under which men and women were incarcerated, and in their roles in relation to non-judicial captivity. This study of the confinement of women highlights the disparity in regulation concerning male and female imprisonment in the middle ages, and gives a useful perspective on the nature of medieval law, its scope and limitations, and its interaction with royal power and prerogative. Looking at England from 1170 to 1509, the book discusses: the situations in which women might be imprisoned without formal accusation of trial; how social status, national allegiance and stage of life affected the chances of imprisonment; the relevant legal rules and norms; the extent to which legal and constitutional developments in medieval England affected women's amenability to confinement; what can be known of the experiences of women so incarcerated; and how women were involved in situations of non-judicial imprisonment, aside from themselves being prisoners.
Theorizing Legal Personhood In Late Medieval England
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Theorizing Legal Personhood In Late Medieval England written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with History categories.
Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, the essays in this volume draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations. These essays contribute new insights into the workings of specific literary texts and provide us with a better grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, and of Eurocentrism. Contributors are Valerie Allen, Candace Barrington, Conrad van Dijk, Toy Fung Tung, Helen Hickey, Andrew Hope, Jana Mathews, Anthony Musson, Eve Salisbury, Jamie Taylor and R.F. Yeager.
Stolen Women In Medieval England
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Author : Caroline Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Stolen Women In Medieval England written by Caroline Dunn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Family & Relationships categories.
The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.
Margaret Of Anjou
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Author : Helen E. Maurer
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
Release Date : 2003
Margaret Of Anjou written by Helen E. Maurer and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Margaret's exercise of power examined, its effects, and the opposition it created.
Women And Parliament In Later Medieval England
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Author : W. Mark Ormrod
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Women And Parliament In Later Medieval England written by W. Mark Ormrod and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with History categories.
This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared there in person to prosecute cases or make political demands. It explores the positions of women of varying rank, from queens to peasants, vis-à-vis this male institution, where they very occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented by written petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the official records of parliament reveals that there were a number of issues on which women consistently pressed for changes in the law and its administration, and where the Commons and the Crown either championed or refused to support reform. Such is the concentration of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these may justifiably be termed ‘women’s issues’ in the medieval Parliament.
Margaret Of Anjou
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Author : Helen Estelle Maurer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Margaret Of Anjou written by Helen Estelle Maurer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Great Britain categories.
Queenship In England
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Author : Conor Byrne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-12
Queenship In England written by Conor Byrne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-12 with categories.
Between 1308 and 1485, nine women were married to kings of England. Their status as queen offered them the opportunity to exercise authority in a manner that was denied to other women of the time. This book offers a new study of these nine queens and their queenship in late medieval England.