Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages

Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Agnes Grantham was a successful businesswoman ambushed and assaulted in a forest whilst on her way to dine with the Master of St Leonard's Hospital. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman. These are their stories.

Auteur
Jeremy Goldberg is Reader in Medieval History at the University of York.

Contenu
Alice de Rouclif: An Eventful Childhood William Pottell: Stories and Storytellers Ellen Taliour: Gender and the Remembrance of Times Past Robert Thewed: The Ties of Tenure and Locality Anabilla Wastelyne: The Ties of Kinship Dom. William Marrays: Stories and Readers Alice Through the Looking Glass Brewing Trouble: The Devout Widow's Tale Patriarchy, Civic Identity and the Widow of Doncaster