Women in Medieval Society /
Women in Medieval Society /
Susan Mosher Stuard.
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- The Middle Ages Series .
Frontmatter -- 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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812210880 9780812207675
10.9783/9780812207675 doi
European History.
History.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
World History.
HISTORY / Medieval.
HQ1143 -- W64 1976eb
301
Frontmatter -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812210880 9780812207675
10.9783/9780812207675 doi
European History.
History.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
World History.
HISTORY / Medieval.
HQ1143 -- W64 1976eb
301