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

By P.J.P. Goldberg

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230602940
• ISBN13: 9780230602946
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 8.5"