1st Edition
Legal Treatises Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part One, Volume 2
By Lynne A. Greenberg
Copyright 2005
432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
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The texts reproduced in facsimile in the three volumes of 'Legal Treatises' reconstruct the legal status of the early modern Englishwoman. To facilitate a reading of the treatises by broadly defining many of the laws discussed in great detail in the treatises, a general introduction to the laws of the period provides concise overviews of the structure of the English legal system; the legal... Read more
Preface by the general editors; Introductory note; A Treatise of Feme Coverts: Or, the Lady's Law Containing All the Laws and Statutes Relating to Women, Under Several Heads; Sarah Kirkham Chapone, Hardships of the English Laws In Relation to Wives.
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Lynne A. Greenberg
