Wilkinson, Louise (2007) Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire. Studies in History . The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, Woodbridge. ISBN 9780861932856, 9780861933341
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Item Type: | Book or Monograph |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
This book offers the first regional study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use of charters, chronicles, government records and some of the earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender, status and life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in Lincolnshire. The author investigates the lives of noblewomen, gentlewomen, townswomen, peasant women, criminal women and women religious from a variety of angles. Not only does she consider how far women were partners alongside men, especially within the family, but she also explores whether they might have been both at once constrained and yet, to an extent, empowered by religious and biological ideas about gender difference which found expression in inheritance practices and the common law. Valuable light on the avenues for political influence open to elite women is shed through case studies of Nicholaa de la Haye (d. 1230), sheriff of Lincoln, Hawise de Quency (d. 1243), countess of Lincoln, and Margaret de Lacy (d. 1266), countess of Lincoln. The book also addresses women's roles within the rural and urban labour markets before the Black Death.
Keywords: | Medieval women, Medieval Lincoln, Medieval Lincolnshire, Nicholaa de la Haye, Countesses of Lincoln, Medieval aristocracy, Medieval peasantry, Medieval townswomen, Medieval gentlewomen, Thirteenth century, Margaret de Lacy, Hawise de Quency |
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Subjects: | V Historical and Philosophical studies > V214 English History V Historical and Philosophical studies > V130 Medieval History V Historical and Philosophical studies > V320 Social History |
Divisions: | College of Arts > School of History & Heritage > School of History & Heritage (History) |
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ID Code: | 41011 |
Deposited On: | 05 Jun 2020 14:26 |
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