Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle AgesPalgrave Macmillan, 2008 M12 12 - 239 pages 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. |
Contents
Dramatis Personae | 3 |
An Eventful Childhood | 21 |
Stories and Storytellers | 33 |
Copyright | |
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