Women in Medieval Society / / Susan Mosher Stuard.
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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©1976 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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