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

Goldberg, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-12-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230602946

DOI: 10.1057/9780230610279

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 239.0