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oapen-20.500.12657-759732024-03-28T09:42:05Z Married Women in Legal Practice Cederbom, Charlotte History General and world history European history: medieval period, middle ages European history Social and cultural history This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the charters pertaining to women created. This enables new findings from an area that has previously not been studied on a larger scale, and reveals trends and tendencies regarding aspects considered central to married women’s agency, such as networks, criminal liability, and procedural capacity. 2023-08-31T08:43:23Z 2023-08-31T08:43:23Z 2020 book ONIX_20230831_9781000692921_36 9781000692921 9780367363130 9780429345234 9780367363123 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75973 eng Routledge Research in Gender and History application/pdf n/a 9781000692921.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429345234 10.4324/9780429345234 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 86d34f0d-2526-499f-b7e8-40af268cf623 9781000692921 9780367363130 9780429345234 9780367363123 Routledge 38 198 [...] open access
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This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the charters pertaining to women created. This enables new findings from an area that has previously not been studied on a larger scale, and reveals trends and tendencies regarding aspects considered central to married women’s agency, such as networks, criminal liability, and procedural capacity.
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