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High-ranking widows in medieval Iceland and Yorkshire : property, power, marriage and identity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach

eBook, English, 2010
Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2010