TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelleher,Marie A.
TI  - The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812205343
AV  - KKT517.5 -- .K45 2010eb 
U1  - 346.4601/34 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - James-II,-King of Aragon,-approximately 1264-1327
KW  - Women-Legal status, laws, etc.-Spain-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Names -- Map -- Introduction: Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts -- Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II -- Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property -- Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women -- Chapter 4. Gender and Violence -- Conclusions -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards
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