Wills And Testaments In Medieval England From The Thirteenth To The Sixteenth Century

Author : Robert A. Wood
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580445314
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century written by Robert A. Wood and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society. Wills are some of the most studied records of the late Middle Ages and capture the evidence of what people owned and the patterns of family relationships. These documents, compiled from several archives and city records, cast a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. Included are wills from widows, tradespeople and artisans, clergy, and high-ranking wealthy people, and through these sources he shows how wills, inventories, and testaments prepared people and their souls for the afterlife.

Author : Michael McMahon Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Will in Medieval England written by Michael McMahon Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Parsons
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580446833
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Middle English Prayer Cycles written by Ben Parsons and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts. Each shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham Prayers and Meditations (ca.1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a "religious sustir." Simon Appulby's Fruyte of Redempcyon (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England's last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike.

Author : Harriet Hudson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580445578
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Caxton's Paris and Vienne and Blanchardyn and Eglantine written by Harriet Hudson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blanchardyn and Eglantine and Paris and Vienne were last edited in 1890 and 1957, respectively. The proposed edition incorporates recent scholarship and criticism, including new critical editions of French texts closely related to Caxton's sources for both romances. Other relevant scholarly traditions include: studies of the two romances and late medieval romance in England and France; gender studies, especially the role of women in these narratives; scholarship relating to the owners and readers of Caxton's romances and associated manuscripts; studies of courtesy literature and its relationship to romance; and scholarship on Caxton, his career, publications, prose style, and language.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284648
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, the essays in this volume draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations. These essays contribute new insights into the workings of specific literary texts and provide us with a better grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, and of Eurocentrism. Contributors are Valerie Allen, Candace Barrington, Conrad van Dijk, Toy Fung Tung, Helen Hickey, Andrew Hope, Jana Mathews, Anthony Musson, Eve Salisbury, Jamie Taylor and R.F. Yeager.

Author : Kathryn Kelsey Staples
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004203141
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of London written by Kathryn Kelsey Staples and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315466848
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Medieval Europe written by Joelle Rollo-Koster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages. Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death, and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland, and Spain. Together these chapters discuss how death was ritualised and choreographed, but also how it was expressed in writing throughout various documentary sources including wills and death registries. In each instance, records are analysed through a cultural framework to better understand the importance of the authors of death and their audience. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.

Author : Alex Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135182655
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law written by Alex Sharpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the legal category 'monster' from theoretical and historical perspectives and deploys this category in order to understand contemporary anxieties surrounding transsexuals, conjoined twins and transgenic humans.

Author : John Block Friedman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626497
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern English Books, Owners and Makers in the Late Middle Ages written by John Block Friedman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to historians and manuscript specialists, this book will have a strong appeal to antiquarians and bibliophiles of the English language.

Author : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134785577
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Property written by Amy Louise Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.