Married women and the law in premodern northwest Europe
Cordelia Beattie (Editor), Matthew Frank Stevens (Editor)
There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property
eBook, English, 2013
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2013