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

Release date: December 26, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0230602940 | ISBN-13: 978-0230602946 | Edition: 1st

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.


Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st edition (December 26, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0230602940
ISBN-13: 978-0230602946

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