Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3993
Author(s): Hough, Carole.
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Title : The Widow's "Mund" in AEthelberht 75 and 76 [The author argues that the text refers to the protection that widows were able to extend to their household and dependants.]
Source: JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 98., 1 (January 1999):  Pages 1 - 16.
Year of Publication: 1999.

2. Record Number: 1381
Author(s): Hough, Carole A.
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Title : The Early Kentish "Divorce Laws": A Reconsideration of Aethelberht, Chs. 79 and 80 [argues that the text traditionally taken as evidence of divorce is in fact about a widow who either remains celibate, keeping her inheritance and children, or remarries and loses her inheritance and, possibly, her children as well].
Source: Anglo-Saxon England , 23., ( 1994):  Pages 19 - 34.
Year of Publication: 1994.

3. Record Number: 8659
Author(s): Rivers, Theodore John.
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Title : Adultery in Early Anglo-Saxon Society: Æthelberht 31 in Comparison with Continental Germanic Law [If a married woman committed adultery in early Germanic society, her husband was entitled to retribution. In Anglo-Saxon society, this retribution took the form of a monetary payment directly proportionate to the offended husband’s class status. Aethelberht of Kent was the first Anglo-Saxon lawmaker to make this distinction. The Church did not have a major effect on pagan laws like this one. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Anglo-Saxon England , 20., ( 1991):  Pages 19 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1991.