Tekijä: Judith M. Bennett; Elizabeth A. Clark; Jean F. O'Barr; B. Anne Vilen Kustantaja: The University of Chicago Press (1994) Saatavuus: Noin 13-16 arkipäivää
Oxford University Press Inc Sivumäärä: 336 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Painos: Hardback Julkaisuvuosi: 1987, 14.05.1987 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
In this book, Judith Bennett addresses the gap in our knowledge of medieval country women by examining how their lives differed from those of rural men. Drawing on her study of an English manor in the early-fourteenth century, she finds that rural women were severely restricted in their public roles and rights primarily because of their household status as dependents of their husbands, rather than because of a notion of female inferiority. Adolescent women and widows, by virtue of their unmarried status, enjoyed greater legal and public freedom than did their married counterparts.