Table of Contents

Introduction - P J P Goldberg
Women, Power and Protection in Tenth and Eleventh Century England - Victoria Whitworth
Unfamiliar Territory: Women, Land and Law in Occitania, 1130-1250 - Jennifer Smith
A Room on One's Own? The Legal Evidence for trhe Legal Arrangements of Women Without Husbands in Late-Fourteenth- and Early-Fifteenth-Century York - Cordelia Beattie
Women, Testamentary Discource and Life-Writing in Later Medieval England -
A Few Home Truths: The Medieval Mother as Guardian in Romance and Law - Noel James
A Matter of Consent: Middle English Romance and the Law of Raptus - Corinne Saunders
Written on the Body: Reading Rape from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries - Kim M Phillips
`[S]he will ... protect and defend her rights boldly by law and reason ...': Women's Knowledge of Common Law and Equity Courts in late-medieval Englandlate-medieval England - Emma Hawkes

About the Author

Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

Reviews

A fine example of how a new generation of historians are approaching the field of legal history... what is really new here is the ways in which all of the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency.
*ALBION [US]*

Its wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary approach to source material throws new light on medieval women living their lives within the framework of the law and legal attitudes.
*RICARDIAN*