English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
Subtitle: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 26, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780195151282
First sentence: THE SUBORDINATION of Yorkist and early Tudor aristocratic women to their male kin rested on an interlocking series of economic, legal, and political institutions, the most fundamental of which were the common law, with its doctrine of coverture; a primogenital inheritance system reinforced by male entail; and a system of arranged marriages based on the dowry and jointure.