| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 322 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford University Press paperback |
| Contents |
Tables and Figures; I: Introduction; II: Studying Women in the Medieval Countryside; III: Rural Households Before the Plague; IV: Daughters and Sons; V: Wives and Husbands; VI: Widows; VII: Medieval Countrywomen in Perspective; Appendix: A Note on Method; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In this book, Judith Bennett addresses the gap in our knowledge of medieval country women by examining how their lives differed from those of rural men. Drawing on her study of an English manor in the early-fourteenth century, she finds that rural women were severely restricted in their public roles and rights primarily because of their household status as dependents of their husbands, rather than because of a notion of female inferiority. Adolescent women and widows, by virtue of their unmarried status, enjoyed greater legal and public freedom than did their married counterparts |
| Analysis |
Rural regions Women Social conditions History, 1154-1399 |
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England |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- England -- History -- Case studies
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Case studies
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Sex role -- England -- History -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Rural conditions
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Sex role
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Women
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Women -- Middle Ages
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Rural conditions -- Case studies
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
86005122 |
| ISBN |
1423735994 |
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9781423735991 |
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9780195040944 |
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0195040945 |
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1280439491 |
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9781280439490 |
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0198021135 |
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9780198021131 |
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1601296053 |
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9781601296054 |
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