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

P.J.P. Goldberg

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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. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: December 15, 2007

ISBN: 0230602940

ISBN 13: 9780230602946

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

P.J.P. Goldberg

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: December 15, 2007

ISBN: 0230602940

ISBN 13: 9780230602946

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