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High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Couverture rigide

Ricketts, Philadelphia

 
9789004184718: High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Synopsis

Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach which reconsiders generalizations about widows independence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philadelphia Ricketts, PhD (2005), University of Liverpool, researches womens history in northern Europe, family history, marriage, identity, naming patterns, and religious patronage. She has published on widows and identity (Haskins Society Journal, 2003), and on grandmothers (Youth and Age, Brill, 2008).

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