Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Uncovering Married Women
- 1 Inheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway
- 2 Spousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden
- 3 When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland
- 4 Married Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales
- 5 Peasant Women, Agency and Status in Mid-Thirteenth- to Late Fourteenth-Century England: Some Reconsiderations
- 6 London's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas
- 7 Married Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England
- 8 Property, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent
- 9 ‘For His Interest’? Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland
- 10 The Worth of Married Women in the English Church Courts, c.1550–1730
- 11 Married Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Uncovering Married Women
- 1 Inheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway
- 2 Spousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden
- 3 When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland
- 4 Married Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales
- 5 Peasant Women, Agency and Status in Mid-Thirteenth- to Late Fourteenth-Century England: Some Reconsiderations
- 6 London's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas
- 7 Married Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England
- 8 Property, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent
- 9 ‘For His Interest’? Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland
- 10 The Worth of Married Women in the English Church Courts, c.1550–1730
- 11 Married Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany
- Index
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- Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013