1st Edition
Married Women in Legal Practice Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450
By Charlotte Cederbom
Copyright 2020
198 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the... Read more
Introduction
1. Defining Women’s Legal Status
2. Married Women and Legal Representation
3. Married Women and Property Management
4. What Married Women Could and Did Do – A Summary and Some Conclusions
Biography
Charlotte Cederbom is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki.
