Married Women in Legal Practice : Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450.
Cederbom, Charlotte, 1982-
Married Women in Legal Practice : Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450. - First edition. - 1 online resource (x, 188 pages). - Routledge Research in Gender and History ; 38 .
Introduction 1. Defining Women's Legal Status 2. Married Women and Legal Representation 3. Married Women and Property Management 4. What Married Women Could and Did Do - A Summary and Some Conclusions
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the charters pertaining to women created. This enables new findings from an area that has previously not been studied on a larger scale, and reveals trends and tendencies regarding aspects considered central to married women's agency, such as networks, criminal liability, and procedural capacity.
9780429345234 0429345232 9781000692921 1000692922 9781000693102 1000693104 9781000693287 1000693287
Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Sweden--To 1500.
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
HISTORY / Social History
KKV550
340.082/09485
Married Women in Legal Practice : Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450. - First edition. - 1 online resource (x, 188 pages). - Routledge Research in Gender and History ; 38 .
Introduction 1. Defining Women's Legal Status 2. Married Women and Legal Representation 3. Married Women and Property Management 4. What Married Women Could and Did Do - A Summary and Some Conclusions
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the charters pertaining to women created. This enables new findings from an area that has previously not been studied on a larger scale, and reveals trends and tendencies regarding aspects considered central to married women's agency, such as networks, criminal liability, and procedural capacity.
9780429345234 0429345232 9781000692921 1000692922 9781000693102 1000693104 9781000693287 1000693287
Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Sweden--To 1500.
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
HISTORY / Social History
KKV550
340.082/09485