Divorce in medieval England: from one to two persons in law
In: Routledge research in medieval studies 4
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In: Routledge research in medieval studies 4
In: Early modern women: EMW ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 207-210
ISSN: 2378-4776
In: The Journal of the history of childhood and youth, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 455-457
ISSN: 1941-3599
In: T.seg: the low countries journal of social and economic history, Band 15, Heft 2-3, S. 166
ISSN: 2468-9068
In: Medieval feminist forum: MFF ; journal of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 148-150
ISSN: 2151-6073
In: Medieval feminist forum: MFF ; journal of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 79-81
ISSN: 2151-6073
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 40, Heft 6, S. 778-799
ISSN: 1547-7045
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 40, Heft 6, S. 778-800
ISSN: 0049-7878
In: Human rights review: HRR, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 127-129
ISSN: 1874-6306
In: Medieval feminist forum: MFF ; journal of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 138-140
ISSN: 2151-6073
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 141-166
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Gender & history, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 167-169
ISSN: 1468-0424
In: Medieval feminist forum: MFF ; journal of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Band 37, S. 51-53
ISSN: 2151-6073
In: Journal of women's history, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 59-82
ISSN: 1527-2036
Art historian Barbara Kellum's 1973 article on child murder in medieval England paints a picture of a world replete with ruthless and murderous single mothers who escaped the legal consequences of their actions due to an indifferent court system that chose to turn a blind eye to the deaths of young children. Despite the overstated tone of her work, it remains the most systematic study of child murder in the medieval English context. Employing a sampling of 131 instances of child murder (including 144 victims), drawn from royal and ecclesiastical courts from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, the current investigation asks us to rethink these early conclusions. Infanticide was a felony in the Middle Ages and neither jurors nor royal officials treated child murder with indifference. Nevertheless, it is clear that both gender and marital status guided the courts in their decisions throughout the legal process in terms of indicting, prosecuting, and sentencing defendants in cases of child murder.
In: Journal of women's history, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 9-31
ISSN: 1527-2036
According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the first trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male jurors were loath to impose the death penalty. A reexamination of the material notes that while conviction rates for assault on pregnant women were low, the English believed such assaults were felonies. Moreover, the role played by husbands as plaintiffs makes it clear that this was not merely a women's issue. Abortion by assault was never an easy judgment for jurors to deliver. In particular, the medical expertise required to pass judgment on such a case presented jurors with difficulties that may have prevented conviction of abortion by assault in many cases.