Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death

Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 0851155340
ISBN-13 : 9780851155340
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death by : Mavis E. Mate

Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.

The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-century England

The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-century England
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 1903153042
ISBN-13 : 9781903153048
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-century England by : James Bothwell

Papers from the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century held at the University of York in July 1998.

Daughters of London

Daughters of London
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9789004203112
ISBN-13 : 9004203117
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Daughters of London by : Kate Kelsey Staples

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.

After the Black Death

After the Black Death
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780192599735
ISBN-13 : 0192599739
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis After the Black Death by : Mark Bailey

The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history. After the Black Death offers a major reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England. After the Black Death reassesses the established scholarship on the impact of plague on fourteenth-century England and draws upon original research into primary sources to offer a major re-interpretation of the subject. It studies how the government reacted to the crisis, and how communities adapted in its wake. It places the pandemic within the wider context of extreme weather and epidemiological events, the institutional framework of markets and serfdom, and the role of law in reducing risks and conditioning behaviour. The government's response to the Black Death is reconsidered in order to cast new light on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. By 1400, the effects of plague had resulted in major changes to the structure of society and the economy, creating the pre-conditions for England's role in the Little Divergence (whereby economic performance in parts of north western Europe began to move decisively ahead of the rest of the continent). After the Black Death explores in detail how a major pandemic transformed society, and, in doing so, elevates the third quarter of the fourteenth century from a little-understood paradox to a critical period of profound and irreversible change in English and global history.

The Black Death

The Black Death
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781137103499
ISBN-13 : 1137103493
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Death by : NA NA

A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries - including Muslim and Byzantine sources - to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, and questions to consider.

The Ties that Bind

The Ties that Bind
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781317013891
ISBN-13 : 1317013891
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ties that Bind by : Katherine L. French

This collection of essays, whose title echoes that of her most well-known book, celebrates the career of Barbara A. Hanawalt, emerita George III Professor of British Studies at The Ohio State University. The volume's contents -- ranging from politics to family histories, from intimate portraits to extensive prosopographies -- are authored by both former students and career-long colleagues and friends, and reflect the wide range of topics on which Professor Hanawalt has written as well as her varied methodological approaches and disciplinary interests. The essays also mirror the variety of sources Professor Hanawalt has utilized in her work: public documents of the law courts and chancery; private deeds, charters, and wills; works of both religious and secular literature. The collection not only illustrates and reinforces the influence of Barbara Hanawalt's work on modern-day medieval studies, it is also a testament to her inspiring friendship and guidance during a career that has now spanned more than three decades.

Encyclopedia of the Black Death

Encyclopedia of the Black Death
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9781598842548
ISBN-13 : 1598842544
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Black Death by : Joseph P. Byrne

This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors. Encyclopedia of the Black Death is the first A–Z encyclopedia to cover the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors and effects in Europe and the Islamic world from 1347–1770. It also bookends the period with entries on Biblical plagues and the Plague of Justinian, as well as modern-era material regarding related topics, such as the work of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, the Third Plague Pandemic of the mid-1800s, and plague in the United States. Unlike previous encyclopedic works about this subject that deal broadly with infectious disease and its social or historical contexts, including the author's own, this interdisciplinary work synthesizes much of the research on the plague and related medical history published in the last decade in accessible, compellingly written entries. Controversial subject areas such as whether "plague" was bubonic plague and the geographic source of plague are treated in a balanced and unbiased manner.

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 986
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ISBN-10 : 9780415969444
ISBN-13 : 0415969441
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by : Margaret Schaus

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Stolen Women in Medieval England

Stolen Women in Medieval England
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781107017009
ISBN-13 : 1107017009
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Stolen Women in Medieval England by : Caroline Dunn

The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.

Black Death

Black Death
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Publisher : Oldacastle Books
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 9781842435533
ISBN-13 : 1842435531
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Death by : Sean Martin

The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died, and in England the population fell from nearly six million to just over three million. Sean Martin looks at the origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through Europe from the Italian cities to the far-flung corners of Scandinavia. He describes contemporary responses to the plague and makes clear how helpless the medicine of the day was in the face of it. He examines the renewed persecution of the Jews, blamed by many Christians for the spread of the disease, and highlights the bizarre attempts by such groups as the Flagellants to ward off what they saw as the wrath of God.