Title: Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, Women, Legal status, laws, History, Women, great britain, Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500, Women, legal status, laws, etc., Great britain, social conditions, Women, social conditions