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Record Number:
8070
Author(s):
French, Kathrine L.
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Title :
Women in the Late Medieval English Parish [The author argues that parish guilds in England were important because they gave women the opportunity to join single-sex organizations that were approved by the community. Women took leadership roles and created activities and rituals that were meaningful for their lives. While generally reinforcing accepted gender behaviors, customs like Hocktide (in which women held men captive for ransom-contributions to the parish) made authorities uneasy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski . Cornell University Press, 2003. Pages 156 - 173.
Year of Publication:
2003.
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Record Number:
1997
Author(s):
French, Katherine L.
Contributor(s):
Title :
To Free Them From Binding: Women in the Late Medieval English Parish [analysis of the celebration of Hocktide during which women chased men, tied them up, and took their ransom money for a parish fund raiser].
Source:
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
(Full Text via JSTOR) 27, 3 (Winter 1997): 387-412.
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Year of Publication:
1997.