Abstract
This paper analyses to what extent the legal shaping of the bills of Chancery masks or reveals the status and the gendered positions of women in English medieval society.
Translated title of the contribution | Servants, Wives and Widows: Reading gender in women’s petitions to the English Court of Chancery in the later Middle Ages |
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Original language | French |
Article number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-28 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Cahiers électroniques d’histoire textuelle du LAMOP |
Volume | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 26 Apr 2017 |
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Cordelia Beattie
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology - Personal Chair of Women's and Gender History
- History
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