A01=Teresa Phipps
Author_Teresa Phipps
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Category=NHDJ
Chester
coverture
debt
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law
litigation
medieval towns
Medieval women
Nottingham
trespass
Winchester
Product details
- ISBN 9781526134592
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns – Nottingham, Chester and Winchester – and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the systems of local justice. Through comparison of the records of three towns, and of women’s roles in different types of legal action, the book reveals the complex ways in which individual women’s legal status could vary according to their marital status, different types of plea and the town that they lived in. At this lowest level of medieval law, women’s status was malleable, making each woman’s experience of justice unique.
Teresa Phipps is Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University
