WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH SOCIETY

Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing, 1997. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvii) 229 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with maps and charts. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The dustjacket features a detail from MS. Bodl - 764 - courtesy of The Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Contents are: Marriage Migration and Servanthood: The York Cause Paper Evidence by 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 by Richard M. Smith; Marriage Patters and Women's Lives: A Sketch of a Pastoral Geography by P. P. A. Biller; For Better or Worse - Marriage and Economic Opportunity for Women in Town and Country by P. J. P. Goldberg; A Woman's Work - Labour and Gender in the Late Medieval Countryside by 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 by Rowena E. Archer; And Hir Name Was Charite - Charitable Giving by and for Women in Late Medieval Yorkshire by P. H. Cullum; and Blessed Art Thou Among Women: The Archeology of Female Piety by Roberta Gilchrist; followed by an index..