Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230602946
Subjects: Medieval; Women's Studies - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 1066-1485; England; History; Legal status, laws, etc; Middle Ages, 500-1500; Social conditions; Women; Yorkshire
Description: "Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a successful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St. Leonard's Hospital. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories."--Jacket.