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Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

Goldberg, J.

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0230602940
ISBN13: 9780230602946
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 12 2008
Pages: 239
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.72 Width: 7.03 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
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.

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