Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

von J. Goldberg

239 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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.

• Reihe: The New Middle Ages
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9781349371358
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2008
• Größe: 21.6 x 14 cm
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US