Woman is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society, c.1200-1500

by P.J.P. Goldberg (Editor)

Marriage, migration, and servanthood : the York cause paper evidence / P.J.P. Goldberg --
Geographical diversity in the resort to marriage in late medieval Europe : work, reputation, and unmarried females in the household formation systems of northern and southern Europe / Richard M. Smith --
Marriage patterns and women's lives : a sketch of a pastoral geography / P.P.A. Biller --
'For better, for worse' : marriage and economic opportunity for women in town and country / P.J.P. Goldberg --
'A woman's work...' : labour and gender in the late medieval countryside / Helena Graham --
'How ladies...who live on their manors ought to manage their households and estates' : women as landholders and administrators in the later Middle Ages / Rowena E. Archer --
'And hir name was Charite' : charitable giving by and for women in late medieval Yorkshire / P.H. Cullum --
'Blessed art thou among women' : the archaeology of female piety / Roberta Gilchrist.

229 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 1992

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