Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages
(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0230602940
ISBN13:9780230602946
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:239 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.0" x 8.5"
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