Women and Law in Elizabethan England with Particular Reference to the Court of Chancery
Title | Women and Law in Elizabethan England with Particular Reference to the Court of Chancery PDF eBook |
Author | Maria L. Cioni |
Publisher | |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 1985 |
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Women and Law in Elizabethan England, with Particular Reference to the Court of Chancery
Title | Women and Law in Elizabethan England, with Particular Reference to the Court of Chancery PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Lynn Cioni |
Publisher | New York : Garland |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England
Title | Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England PDF eBook |
Author | E. Sheen |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2004-11-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230597661 |
This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s. This wide-ranging study, working on the edge of new historicism as well as book history, covers topics such as libel/slander and literary debate, legal textual production, authorship and the politics of authorial attribution and theatre and the law.
English Law Under Two Elizabeths
Title | English Law Under Two Elizabeths PDF eBook |
Author | Sir John Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2021-01-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108837964 |
A novel experiment in comparative legal history, exploring the legal world in England during two different periods.
Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England
Title | Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Stretton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1998-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521495547 |
An examination of different aspects of women's activities in litigation in sixteenth-century England.
Women before the court
Title | Women before the court PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsay R. Moore |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2019-05-10 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 152613635X |
This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women’s legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
Title | Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hillman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317135881 |
Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.