Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2325
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kuehn , Thomas.
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  • Title: Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows: Women as Legal Persons [The author traces women's legal agency across the life span; each phase had its limits even widowhood in which many women had to struggle for the return of their dowry or accept remarriage at their natal family's behest].
  • Source: Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe.  Edited by Anne Jackson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel MenchiSixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 57.  Truman State University Press, 2001.  Pages 97 - 115.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Daughters Dowries Family Florence Law Life Cycle Marriage Mothers Widows Wives
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14- 15- 16
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  • Author's Affiliation: Clemson University
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  • Year of Publication: 2001.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0943549825