Author: Clifford A. ThurleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probate records
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Index of the Probate Records of the Consistory Court of Ely 1449-1858
Author: Clifford A. ThurleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probate records
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Index of the Probate Records of the Consistory Court of Ely 1449-1858
Author: Clifford A. ThurleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Index of the Probate Records of the Consistory Court of Ely 1449-1858
Author: Clifford ThurleyIndex of the Probate Records of the Consistory Court of Ely, 1449-1858: Q-Z
Author: Clifford A. ThurleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780901505316
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 1303
Book Description
Index of Bedfordshire Probate Records, 1484-1858
Author: Alan F. CirketPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Daughters of London
Author: Kathryn Kelsey StaplesPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In historical records, women appear as widows, sometimes as wives or singlewomen, but one thing they had in common was they all were daughters. Through an examination of the Husting wills, Kate Staples focuses on daughters in the late medieval capital and their chances to own, rent, and manage property. These daughters were provided opportunities to be active economic agents in a world often described as hostile to women. Daughters of London also considers parents’ influence through their bequests to daughters and the visualization of daughters’ household spaces that these bequests allow. By focusing on daughterhood, and particularly urban daughters’ experiences of inheritance, we can refocus the lens through which we see and understand women’s lives in the medieval past
Cambridge and Its Economic Region, 1450-1560
Author: John S. LeePublisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 9781902806525
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Lee studies the population, wealth, trade and markets of Cambridge and its region, and the changes that took place over a century of economic and social transition are detailed.
The Good Women of the Parish
Author: Katherine L. FrenchPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior for women with Christianity, and their failure to conform to sin. Katherine L. French argues, however, that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests and responsibilities. Scholarship on medieval women's religious experiences has focused primarily on elite women, nuns, and mystics who either were literate enough to leave written records of their religious ideas and behavior or had access to literate men who did this for them. Most women, however, were not literate, were not members of religious orders, and did not have private confessors. As The Good Women of the Parish shows, the great majority of women practiced their religion in a parish church. By looking at women's contributions to parish maintenance, the ways they shaped the liturgy and church seating arrangements, and their increasing opportunities for collective action in all-women's groups, the book argues that gendered behavior was central to parish life and that women's parish activities gave them increasing visibility and even, on occasion, authority. In the face of demands for silence, modesty, and passivity, women of every social status used religious practices as an important source of self-expression, creativity, and agency.
The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649
Author: Cheryl A. FuryPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843836890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Investigates the lives of common sailors engaged in commerce, exploration, privateering and piracy, and naval actions during Tudor and Stuart periods.
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