Women in Medieval Society

Table of contents

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• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments *
• Introduction 1
• Land, Family, and Women in Continental Europe, 701-1200 13
• Infanticide in the Early Middle Ages 47
• Women in Reconquest Castile: The Fueros of Sepúlveda and Cuenca 71
• Marriage and Divorce in the Frankish Kingdom 95
• The Female Felon in Fourteenth- Century England 125
• Mulieres Sanctae 141
• Widow and Ward: The Feudal Law of Child Custody in Medieval England 159
• Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice 173
• Women in Charter and Statute Law: Medieval Ragusa/Dubrovnik 199
• Contributors 213
• Index 215