Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague
Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive records of the forest manor of Brigstock, Judith Bennett challenges the myth of a golden age of equality for medieval men and women. Instead, she ably shows that women faced profound political, legal, economic, and social disadvantages in their dealings with men. These disadvantages stemmed more from women's household status as dependents of their husbands than from any notion of female infer…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-504094-4
- EAN: 9780195040944
- Produktnummer: 22402928
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
- Seitenangabe: 338 S.
- Masse: H21.9 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.5 cm 522 g
- Gewicht: 522
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