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The Measure of Woman : Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205343
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Measure of WomanDDC classification:
  • 346.4601/34
LOC classification:
  • KKT517.5 -- .K45 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal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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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.

Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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