Hidden in plain sight : female litigators, reproductive lives, archival practices and early modern historiography / Julie Hardwick. 'Consent and coercion : women's use of marital consent laws as legal defense in late Medieval Paris / Kristi DiClemente -- Shades of consent : abduction for marriage and women's agency in the late Medieval low countries / Chanelle Delameilleure -- Female litigants in secular and ecclesiastical courts in the lands of the Bohemian crown, c.1300-c.1500 / Michaela Antonin Malanikova -- Widowhood and attainder in Medieval Ireland : the case of Margaret Nugent / Sparky Booker -- Choosing Chancery? : Women's petitions to the late Medieval Court of Chancery / Cordelia Beattie -- Gendered roles and female litigants in northeastern England, 1300-1530 / Peter Larson -- Property over patriarchy? Remarried widows as litigants in the records of Glasgow's commissary court, 1615-1694 / Rebecca Mason -- Women negotiating wealth : gender, law and arbitration in early modern southern Tyrol / Margareth Lanzinger and Janine Maegraith -- A litigating widow and wife in early modern Sweden : Lady Elin Johansdotter [Maneskold] and her family circle / Mia Korpiola -- Women litigants in early eighteenth-century Ireland / Mary O'Dowd -- Hidden in plain sight : female litigators, reproductive lives, archival practices and early modern historiography / Julie Hardwick.
Summary:
"This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field. Drawing on archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Low Countries, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia"-- Provided by the publisher.
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